Bag One

The lithographs, known collectively as Bag One, had been drawn by Lennon in 1969, and chronicled his wedding ceremony and honeymoon with Yoko Ono, and one of their bed-ins for world peace. The exhibition took place over a two-week period at the London Arts Gallery at 22 New Bond Street, London W1.

London Arts Gallery Bag One John Lennon Controversy Police Raid Obscenity Trial

The London Arts Gallery came to the notice of an international public when in 1970, its owner Eugene Schuster was charged with corrupting morals when he exhibited erotic artwork by John Lennon of himself and his wife Yoko Ono in various stages of lovemaking. The London Arts Gallery, located in an upscale district on New …

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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 them in January 1970 denounced them as ‘ disgusting and repulsive’. The level of outrage provoked by the Beatle’s ‘artwork’ is revealed in official files made public for the first …

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