ID 1472082
Los 160 | WAR IS OVER! (IF YOU WANT IT)
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$ 8 000 – 12 000
Broadside, 150 x 210mm.
An extremely rare signed placard from Lennon and Ono's storied "War is Over!" campaign, presented to Ian L. Campbell on 22 December 1969. Ono and Lennon were interviewed by Campbell, a member of the Canadian Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs. The Le Dain Commission, as it was popularly known, sought the testimony of over 12,000 individuals as it studied the use of cannabis and other recreational drugs. It was completed in 1972 with the majority favoring decriminalization and a minority recommending full legalization (Dr. Campbell recommended issuing tickets for public consumption of cannabis).
Lennon and Ono began the War is Over! campaign on 15 December 1969 when the couple arranged for a simple slogan, in Franklin Gothic typeface to resemble a newspaper headline, to be posted on numerous billboards in eleven major cities across the world, together with full-page newspaper advertisements together with posters and leaflets. Lennon credited Ono with the concept, and specifically something for Christmas, remarking in an interview in Canada shortly before they gave their testimony to the Le Dain Commission, "...what we’ll do is a poster event. And then how do you get posters stuck all around the world, you know. It’s easier said than done. So we just started ringing up and find it out. And at first we’re gonna have... we had some other wording, didn’t we, like, 'Peace Declared.' And it started up, there’s a place in New York, where you can have your own newspaper headline, you know. There’s a little shop somewhere in Times Square. And we were wondering how to, sort of like, get it in the newspapers as if it had happened, you know. And it developed from that" (John Lennon and Yoko Ono, interview with Marshall McLuhan, Mississauga, Ontario, 19 December 1969).
[With:] Typescript, "John Lennon and Yoko Ono Interview With Dean I.L. Campbell and Dr. Lehmann", 52 pages, 215 x 277mm. Spiral-bound; Campbell's business card; a display sign for the commission; a sterling silver cigarette case bearing Campbell's engraved initials. Provenance: Dr. Ian L. Campbell – purchased by the consignor.
Christie's would like to thank noted Beatles autograph and handwriting expert Frank Caiazzo for his assistance in authenticating this lot.
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