Posted on 03/27/2024 10:30:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pattie Boyd has sold her private collection of artifacts, which included the original painting from the cover of 1970's Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, as well as various items from her marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton.
The painting, titled La Jeune Fille au Bouquet and created by Emile Theeodore Frandsen in the mid '50s, was acquired by Clapton directly via the artist's son in 1970. Clapton later gifted it to Harrison in the late '70s, who in turn gifted to Boyd in the late '80s. Boyd has now sold the painting for $2.5 million.
Boyd's collection, which sold for a total of $3.6 million, also included letters, photos and more from her relationships with the two musicians. Boyd met Harrison on the set of the 1964 Beatles film, A Hard Day’s Night. They were married two years later, divorcing in 1977.
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Before their split, Clapton attempted to woo Boyd away from Harrison, despite the two guitarists being friends. Among the sold items was a 1970 letter to Boyd from Clapton, which read: "Dearest L, it seems like an eternity since I last saw or spoke to you...If there is still a feeling in your heart for me ... you must let me know! ... Don't telephone. Send a letter ... that is much safer."
Boyd and Clapton then married in 1977, divorcing in 1989.
Other items sold at auction included a handwritten setlist of Clapton's, photos from a Cream reunion in 1976, lyrics to an incomplete Clapton song called "Sweet Loraine" and more.
I need to auction some stuff :)
I know that painting. I always thought it might have been done in oil pastels.
Dear Patti needs a haircut more appropriate for a woman of a certain age. That teenage style only makes her look rough by comparison. Did Patti call my Secret Number to hear my opinion? No, she did not, least not so far.
Amateurish looking work at best, I always thought. But hey, art is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it, and they only bought this because of the fame behind it. Otherwise, 2 bucks at a yard sale.
Are they going to cut Rita Coolidge in their pay day this time?? One of all-time greatest rock-and-roll ripoffs occurred when Jim Gordon stole his then-girlfriend Coolidge’s song “Time,” ditched her lyrics and tacked the melody onto his and Eric Clapton’s song “Layla,” earning millions for the lads. (Of course Gordon didn’t really get to enjoy his wealth for long, as he’d soon go to prison for murder).
This is an ugly, stupid painting. It seems that is what’s required these days for grifting $millions out of stupid rich people who reflexively believe what so-called art experts tell them.
She’s not bad looking for a woman her age really. Would you shun her if she sat down next to you at a bar?
She turned 80 this month.
I think it’s prescient. It predicted that all our thoughts would be in The Cloud where the government can more easily track them.
Layla is a good painting
I read Patti Boyd biography years ago. Eric was so drunk drugged and abusive
https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Tonight-George-Harrison-Clapton/dp/0307407837
Oh yes I would, unless I was 250 years old. . . or I was wearing glasses thicker than ten inches and as distorted as the bottom of a Coke bottle, drunk 65 beers and chased them with a fifth of cheap vodka, a pint of Jagermeister; 4 bottles of Thunderbird, smoked a z of extremely potent pot and snorted at least an eight-ball of premium blow.
Even after doing all that it would only be a "maybe."
Opinions.
But it is probably the best known painting by a non-famous painter.
From the blessed era of album cover art - this may be the pinnacle.
I have a first copy in a frame on the wall.
I love that album.
Duane Allman played on most of that album.
Little known fact
As if a woman of her stature and history would even consider you as someone to sit next to on a barstool. Get a grip.
Think of the stories she has to tell! What memories she holds!
Gee, I wonder why your first comment here got deleted.
The buyer has a lot more money than common sense.
Unless perhaps he is an investor and is counting on reselling it to a greater fool.
The picture of Boyd and the painting is owned by Getty Images. The use of Getty-owned images are verboten on FR because of past lawsuit problems.
It’s the fact that it’s the Layla album cover that gives it value
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