John Lennon’s ‘Bag One’, history, first public exhibition, police raid and obscenity controversy
The London Arts Gallery came to the notice of an international public when in 1970, its then owner Eugene Schuster was charged with corrupting morals
Portillo State Secrets British National Archives
In January 1970 the first ever exhibit of Bag One by John Lennon took place at the London Arts Gallery 22 New Bond Street. The opening was raided by the Scotland Yard Vice squad and the prints were confiscated. The gallery owner was charged with Obscenity and a trial was held the next month.
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Beatle Art Display Set for Detroit
Curiosity seeking crowds are not what the London Art Gallery hopes to attract with its showing of a collection of etchings by Beatle John Lennon,
Lennon Exhibitor Draws Picasso Into His Defense
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters)— A court was asked today to decide whether a drawing by Beatle John Lennon depicting a sex act was more obscene
private display of the intimate life of john and Yoko Ono Lennon NYC 1970
(29 Jan 1970) STORY 1/29/70 c0008340 – color New York: A private display of the intimate life of john and Yoko Ono Lennon will
Wedded Bliss The Erotic Lithographs of John Lennon – Avant-Garde Magazine
With publication of the lithographs on the next five pages, John Lennon, master musician, promoter of peace, and one of the Now Generation’s most inspiring
Mr Schuster Sells His Etchings Just Like Soap Powder
EUGENE SCHUSTER has made an extremely good thing out of etchings. He’s a bright young American who had the brainwave of selling modern art as
John Lennon’s controversial drawings – John & Yoko exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool
Victoria Patience, assistant curator of the Museum of Liverpool, discusses how an exhibition of John Lennon’s drawings caused controversy in 1970
Erotic Lennon ‘disgusting’ – The Evening Standard
Detectives damningly dismissed John Lennon’s erotic drawings as the product of a sick mind. And members of the public who visited the London gallery exhibiting
Come Together: John Lennon’s illegal art
Confiscated in a Scotland Yard raid, John Lennon’s erotic drawings spent only a single day on display in London. Fifty years on, the explicit lithographs