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Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Pattie Boyd

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£ 8 190
Auction dateClassic
22.03.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1166798
Lot 64 | Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Pattie Boyd
A rare psychedelic drawing in black ink on paper, primarily executed by Eric Clapton with peripheral additions by his former Cream bandmate Ginger Baker and then girlfriend Pattie Boyd during a communal acid trip at his Surrey home Hurtwood Edge, circa 1975, the artwork in the intricately detailed graphic style practiced by 1960s Cream collaborators such as poster artist Martin Sharp and cartoonist Ed Argo, featuring diverse elements ranging from the fantastical and surreal to the decorative and cartoonish, including: a central female face, partially obscured and surrounded by swirling spirals, stripes, stars, waves and other patterns; a female side-profile formed from billowing clouds, inscribed This IS MY NEW FUCK PICK, and signed E.C.; a futuristic metropolis at sunrise; a stippled beach scene; a permed rocker - probably Bob Dylan - in coat and wide-brimmed hat, slouched against a public bathroom door with a snake coiled through his legs, flanked by a sketch of a Zemaitis acoustic guitar with heart-shaped sound hole and phallic headstock, annotated YE NOB - one of numerous phallic images and references scattered throughout; a corresponding LADIES bathroom door, with a couple of EC guitar picks scattered nearby; a caricature sketch of Ronnie Wood playing guitar alongside the Rolling Stones tongue and lips logo, while a smoking figure - probably Keith Richards - announces AN OUR NEW GUITARIST, RON WOOD!!; two mod rockers in winkle pickers conducting a phallic duel, annotated NOBS AT DAWN; a Biggles-esque pilot dropping explosives from an RFC aircraft, simultaneously under fire from an enemy aircraft annotated GET A LOAD OF THAT SPUNKER BIGGLES; a Pignose amplifier picking its nose, annotated THE NEW PICKNOSE AMPLIFIER; a bald cartoon figure - possibly representing Clapton's manager Roger Forrester - peeping from behind a wall, annotated WHAT NO 10%?; and a crude doodle of Elvis Presley with a tub of Brylcreem
113/4 x 161/2 in. (30 x 42 cm.)
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