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compiled by Eimear McKeith
Bono the artist (January 13, 2004)
A limited edition set of lithographs of Peter
and the Wolf by U2 singer Bono goes on sale today at the
London Art Fair to raise money for the Irish Hospice Foundation,
which gives assistance to patients with long-term illnesses.
The prints will be on display at The
Cynthia Corbett Gallery. Gallery owner Corbett said of the
works, "When I saw them I was just blown away, I thought
they were sensational." Bono is less confident of his artistic
talents, having stated: "I love art too much to call these
anything other than marks on paper."
Popular opinion, however, seems more than impressed
by Bono's artistic endeavours, the original works having been
snapped up at a charity auction in Christie's
at the Rockefeller Plaza in New York last November. Sixteen watercolour-on-paper
images - six paintings and ten studies - all sold for a total
of $368,000 to benefit the Irish Hospice Foundation. In the star-studded
auction room, REM's Michael Stipe paid $14,000 for an image of
a duck. The highest price was $60,000 for a stylized self-portrait
of the singer as Peter.
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Bono at work. Image
held here
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Bono, details from
Study of Peter I and Peter & the Wolf V.
Image held here |
The illustrations were created by Bono and his
two daughters, Jordan and Eve, for a cloth-bound limited-edition
book that accompanies a CD of a modern take on Sergi Prokofiev's
Peter and the Wolf, performed by Gavin Friday and the Friday-Seezer
Ensemble. Intended to raise funds for the Irish Hospice Foundation,
Bono became involved because "these angels who were so ready
to look after my father in his losing fight with cancer asked
me to illustrate the book that accompanies the music."
This is the second enterprising fundraising
project involving contemporary art that the Irish Hospice Foundation
has intiated in the last couple of years, the previous one being
Art:pack, a limited-edition set
of 54 playing cards, each card having been designed by an Irish
artist. The originals works by the eclectic group of artists,
which also included Bono, were sold at auction as well.
The edition of 200 lithographs is sure to raise
further funds for the charity, with each for sale at the Cynthia
Corbett Gallery for an undisclosed four-figure sum. If you can't
afford this, however, the book and CD are still on sale for a
mere €20.
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| Comment 1 |
bono is truely a talented person ... i hope to see more of
this multi artist
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| Comment 2 |
Ahhhh...am I missing something, where is the ART!
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| Comment 3 |
How many members of U2 does it take to change a light bulb?
Just Bono...... he holds it and the world revolves around
him.
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