An extensive portfolio of Stuart’s artwork is also being offered by the Sutcliffe Estate.
A rare archive of photos and memorabilia giving an extraordinary insight into the birth of The Beatles is expected to fetch millions of pounds.
Auction houses are vying to acquire the collection of over 400 images and letters from the estate of Stuart Sutcliffe. Items include photos of the early group, with Stuart and his best pal John Lennon.
Stuart’s younger sister Pauline was 14 when she first saw The Beatles perform at a local town hall. She once said: “I felt my nerves were plugged into an electricity outlet. My brother had made it, they all had, they were fresh and full of energy... Stuart wanted more than most. He loved and lived life.”
Stuart died aged 21 in 1962 in Hamburg of a brain haemorrhage. John never got over the death. His wife Yoko Ono told Pauline: “Not a day went by when John did not mention Stuart.”
The pair’s closeness is evident in many of the 37 photos, slides and negatives of Stuart, Astrid and The Beatles from 1960 to 1962.
Diane Vitale, who is chief executive of the estate and was friends with Pauline who died in 2019, said: “The dream was for some of the art collection to find a home where it would be available to all. “The mission was always for it to return to where it all began.” Some items could be donated to a learning institution.
Diane said: “Ideally, a university, museum or foundation could house some of the collection and make it available for exhibition to the public and for research purposes. An individual collector could do the same. Finding a benefactor who could finance a university or museum acquisition would be ideal, and while Liverpool is my first choice it could happen anywhere.”
The work is stored in East Hampton, New York, and has been loaned to museums such as New York’s Guggenheim and Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. Vitale has said she has received numerous inquiries since listing the archive on 23 January.
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