From one of many world’s most high-profile movie careers, to an more and more prolific musical profession and a relatively acrimonious current divorce, Johnny Depp has lengthy courted headlines. Now, he’s attracting consideration for the speedy gross sales of a set of silk-screen prints he has painted of a number of well-known faces, together with Heath Ledger and Bob Marley, and have reportedly fetched £4.5m within the first week.
“For a few years, I actually held myself strictly to only the day job of the movie enterprise, despite the fact that in my coronary heart and without end I’ve been a musician, and I’ve at all times wanted to flee right into a clean piece of paper, whether or not or not it’s writing, drawing or portray a clean canvas,” Depp says in a launch.
The four-piece version sequence Associates & Heroes II are priced every at £17,500 (the entire income worth consists of the sale of proofs). It follows an earlier set of works by the star, which included depictions of Al Pacino and Elizabeth Taylor, and which have been offered final July for a complete of £3.5m.
The works are being offered by Fort Nice Artwork, a subsidiary of the Washington Inexperienced Nice Artwork retail group, which has additionally gives works by Bob Dylan, Billy Conolly and Marvel.