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Double-sided page of original drawings removed from one of Stuart Sutcliffe's sketchbooks, 7.5 x 9.75, showing dancers in six different poses. The artwork was originally in a workbook that Sutcliffe submitted as an applicant for admission to the Royal College of Art, which was the property of the Sutcliffe estate and sold at Bonhams auction in July 2003. Matted and framed with a portrait and color copy of the reverse side to an overall size of 27 x 15.75; a window in the backing displays the reverse of the page. In fine condition. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Beatles expert Perry Cox.
Sutcliffe was a talented fellow student of John Lennon's at the Liverpool College of Art, who played the bass in the first incarnation of the Beatles. He chose his passion for painting above being a Beatle and left the group to devote himself to his art career; not long after, he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of twenty-one.
