Auction of Who artwork (From This is Hampshire)
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Auction of Who artwork
10:18am Wednesday 14th October 2009 in News
The Who performing at the Gaumont in 1971
ARTWORK commissioned by Sixties legends The Who is to auctioned off today by its Hampshire owner.
As revealed by the Daily Echo in the summer, twenty-five paintings of the group, ordered by guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey, will go up for sale on a global internet auction site with a reserve price of £165,000.
The collection was left to Hampshire man Paul Kelly by the artist, his best friend John Davis who was killed in a car crash three years ago.
Mr Davis was commissioned to produce the paintings for a book, A Decade of The Who.
Mr Kelly, 45, from Hedge End, says there has already been interest from as far afield as New Zealand.
