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Lot 20: Paul McCartney Signed Caricature
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For veteran session guitarist Carlos Alomar, this caricature may be worth more than a gaggle of Grammies, and more flattering than being asked for an autograph by God. That's because the quaint pen and ink portrait was the handiwork of none other than Sir Paul McCartney, raising the question of whether there is anything this man can't do.
Not content with being the world's most famous (and richest) rock and roller with a legacy as the "cute" Beatle who wrote all those silly love songs, Paul is also quite the artist, it seems (would you like to be the one to tell him otherwise?) And, feeling the urge, he spent some take-five time during the "First to Play" recording sessions (which ran from March to May of 1985) to doodle a caricature of the session player who had been David Bowie's right-hand man (and co-writer along with John Lennon on the hit "Fame").
His vision of Alomar has a round, bespectacled face, kinky hair and enormously toothy smile in black ink, with collars and rims of the glasses highlited yellow. Beneath the image McCartney wrote: "Zippy. To Carlos, 'Many Thanks To Ye" and signed his name in blue sharpie with an added "XX". The signature is absolutely top-notch McCartney, NRMT all the way, and to think that it's on a piece of original art by him is mind-blowing. Drawing is on a sheet of 8.5 1/2 x 11" lined paper, with both image and paper nearly pristine. Included are 5 Polaroids, 3 of McCartney as he drew it, 1 of he and Alomar in the studio, and 1 of the drawings hanging on the studio wall. Carlos had to be amazed, no maybes about it.
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