Blood on the skyline
AN image of Beatle John Lennon’s glasses, stained in blood from when he was shot dead, is being auctioned next week.
The photograph was taken by the music legend’s wife Yoko Ono and is one of only six such prints.
It is expected to fetch up to 10,000 when it is put up for auction at Bonhams in London on Wednesday.
Lennon was killed outside his New York apartment by obsessed fan Mark Chapman in 1980.
The photo shows the singer’s famous round spectacles next to a glass of water and on a table set against the window of the couple’s apartment overlooking Manhattan.
The image was later used for the front cover of Yoko’s album Season of Glass. The print is owned by Johnnie Walker, a fund raiser for Artist Residencies of Tokyo, and all proceeds will go to the organisation.
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