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John lennon mystery piece

Hello . I was is new york for a citytrip in 2013. Being a beatlefan I went to a fleamarket to look for records.Found no good records,but I saw a stand with posters etc and a lot of paper things.there I found this little paper with some writing on it.It said john and yoko and a date and adress.I could see it was handwritten and I knew John would always write john+yoko instead of john and yoko.So i bought the little paper and took it home.So investigating the piece I became pretty sure john wrote and drawn this. What do you guys think of it?

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Permalink Reply by Jim Cushman on March 10, 2017 at 4:39am

End of story...next!!!

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Permalink Reply by Pete Bendu on March 10, 2017 at 4:45am

Being a longtime Comic book fan, I look at this piece very differently. Lets call John Lennon "Sergio Aragones," a great artist with a very particular style, everything that is known to be drawn by the man had a fast line with cartoonish flourish.

The piece that you believe was drawn by John is far more realistic in in design and not at all cartoonish, more of the realism attained by proper shadowing and exacting shape, more like Neal Adams

Sure artists can cross borders and work in multiple styles, but we have never seen anything like this drawn by John Lennon, add the fact that it is unsigned and you have a long way to go to prove the sketch was ever even seen by John.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2017 at 11:34am

Great posts. To me, Lennon's work appears a hybrid of Schiele and Ralph Steadman.

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Permalink Reply by van den Berg on March 10, 2017 at 12:32pm

To be continued...

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2017 at 12:44pm

No offense, but that would be like watching Titanic 2. However, I am open to new evidence - it's just that there has not been any at all yet, and I am running out of things to look at here. One wonders why Lennon would draw something so small for example. What about the totally atypical borders and placement? The inset nature of the "portrait" - shaded back, with Lennon's known drawings generally having a free-floating flat quality? The unexplained squaring, the toned substrate...if you want to discuss shading, even the stippling seems quite different in employment from known Lennon works. What else is there?

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on March 10, 2017 at 1:02pm

I often ask this question first but seem to have gotten distracted for some reason. What, if anything, is on the Reverse? Sometimes, there is more useful data there than on the Obverse.

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Permalink Reply by van den Berg on March 10, 2017 at 3:48pm

Nothing on the back .like i said before.its looktrough paper.everybodys focussing on the drawing.forget about the drawing.look at the text for a change.each letter.new effidence? Well lets look at the nr 5. Its written in 2 pieces.he did this already when he was young.See his poststampbook.and also in 1976 when he was studying japanese.

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Permalink Reply by van den Berg on March 10, 2017 at 3:50pm

Japanese form 1976

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Permalink Reply by fab432 on March 10, 2017 at 4:23pm

No disrespect intended but you need to move on with this. I make a 5 just like John's and I didn't write the note or draw the picture. I think you might need to try and convince a new group of collectors as this group seems to be pretty steadfast in their opinions that your item was not done by John Lennon.