A Grand Piano Once Owned By John Lennon is Coming Up for Sale
John Lennon and Yoko Ono added this plaque to a Baldwin grand piano the gifted to their friend Sam Green. The piano will be up for auction in September
A Baldwin grand piano which passed through the hands of two of the most influential artists of the 20th century, John Lennon and Andy Warhol, will go on auction in September at Alex Cooper Auctioneers in Townson, Maryland, according to the Baltimore Banner.
John Lennon bought the Concert Grand Model D Piano in 1978 from the Baldwin Factory Store in New York City, according to ACA. The following year he gave the instrument to his friend, the art dealer and curator Sam Green, who organized Andy Warhol’s first American museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. A plaque that read “For Sam Love From John And Yoko 1979” was added just above the Baldwin logo that sits above the center of the piano’s keys.
Source: Daniel Cassady/artnews.com
