Item: The Beatles by David Adickes (see Auction here 21 Tons of Beatles Statues)
Starting Bid: $260,000.00 (Did not Sell)
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Date: Apr 04, 2012
Auction: Ebay
Seller: davida1752
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The Beatles by David Adickes 21 Tons of Beatles Statues
The Beatles songs revolutionized the pop music industry in the 1960s. But it was the Sgt. Pepper period with day-glo military uniforms that stuck in the mind of local artist David Adickes. “They’re creativity, their musicianship, their writing, their sense of portrait,” he said. “They’re just very creative guys.” We are moving and I would like to find The Beatles a new home David said recently and he is interested in any valid ideas.
To count David Adickes statues you need a calculator, David’s most resent Larger Than Life Work is the Beatles towering nearly 40 feet and weighing close to 5 tons each, they are breath taking.
The Beatles are looking for a new home. David has agreed to set his Beatles Free.
Historically David’s larger than life works have sold at larger than life prices, today we are asking a very reasonably price as David wishes to have them relocated to a more exposed location. Priced at $380,000.00 for the set and this includes the skills required to relocate the set.
About David Adickes ;
The career of well known Texas artist and sculptor, David Adickes, spans 7 decades. Born in Huntsville, Texas, Adickes soon left home for a stint in the military. Although he has a degree in math and physics, he pursued art and studied in France and studied from 1948 to 1950 with modern French master Fernand Leger. After his studies, Adickes chose to return to the Houston area which is close to his home town of Huntsville.
When asked, Adickes stated that he could have pursued a career in New York but he found it a little nervous! David Adickes art has been featured in many one man shows across the United States and in France where he lived for six years early in his career. Mr. Adickes is well traveled and has circled the globe painting in Tahiti, Japan, Spain. His art is featured in many museums, and hundreds of corporate and private collections. The Virtuoso was David Adickes first large size sculpture commissioned in 1983 by the Lyric Center. The 76 foot statue of Sam Houston located in Huntsville, Texas was completed in 1994.
His seven year project building presidential parks in South Dakota (August 2003) and Williamsburg, Virginia (March 2004) began in 1996. In 2003 Adickes returned to painting and produced many fine works. However, his love of sculpture inspired him to create his statue of Stephen F. Austin located in Henry Munson Park in Brazoria County, Texas. The statue of the Father of Texas is 60 foot tall resting on a 12 foot base making the exhibit a total of 72 feet tall and visible for many miles around.
The Beatles exhibit is not in the same style of the presidents but is more in the style of his paintings. Their original record label, EMI and ATV/Sony estimate that more than 3-billion Beatles albums, singles and CDs have been sold worldwide, with possibly twice that amount being downloaded from I-tunes and the net .
Beatles memorabilia continues to command huge sums. Six of the 10 most expensive auctioned celebrity memorabilia items in the world are Beatles according to Worth Magazine.
#5, John Lennon’s talisman necklace The necklace was worn by Lennon on the cover of his 1968 album with Yoko One, Two Virgins. It was sold to a private collector in 2008 for $528,000.
#4, Gibson SG guitar played by George Harrison and John Lennon The classic Gibson guitar was played by Harrison on the Beatles’ Revolver album, and by Lennon on the White Album. It sold to an anonymous bidder at Christie’s for $567,500.
#3, A hand painted Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s drum skin The drum is the centerpiece on the front cover of the band’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. It sold in 2008 for a staggering $1.1m.
#2, John Lennon’s Steinway piano Pop singer George Michael placed the winning bid for the piano on which Lennon wrote his song Imagine, in 2000, for $2.1m.
#1, John Lennon’s hand painted Rolls Royce Phantom V The car was sold by Sotheby’s to Canadian businessman Jim Pattison in 1985 for $2.23m.
Recently an audio tape of a 1974 interview with Lennon sold at auction for more than $38,000. At the same auction, McCartney’s handwritten lyrics for “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” brought $192,000.
A handwritten note by Lennon, which reads: “Here’s the famous banned butcher cover. You can sell it for $11m dollars.” Is for sale at a upscale gallery, the gallery is asking $11 million for the item – making it the most costly piece of Beatles memorabilia ever.