Johnny Depp’s debut art collection sells out in hours for nearly $4 million
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Johnny Depp’s debut art collection “Friends & Heroes” sold out in hours on a London art gallery’s website Thursday, earning the actor millions.
Castle Fine Art Gallery listed 780 prints featuring pop art style portraits of Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Taylor, Al Pacino and Keith Richards.
“This world first release proved to be our fastest-selling collection to date, with all titles selling out within hours,” the gallery announced on Instagram.
According to the gallery, Depp focused on “people he knows well and who have inspired him as a person.” “Each picture is an intimate reflection of their character in Johnny’s eyes; a description of how they have revealed themselves to him.”
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Al Pacino has been close friends since the pair co-starred in the 1997 crime drama “Donnie Brasco,” combining a “shared penchant for creative madness,” the collection’s blurb says.
He and Keith Richards love music, especially “obscure blues songs,” and he called the Rolling Stones guitarist “the coolest rock ‘n’ roll star ever” in the brochure. Richards partially inspired Depp’s character Captain Jack Sparrow in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise.
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Silkscreen limited edition portraits sold individually and as a package. A set of four is priced at $15,040 and a single portrait at $3,973.
Depp earned more than $3.6 million from Thursday’s sale, according to the Sunday-Times.
An actor’s successful advancement into art will a big win in his ex-wife Amber Heard’s defamation case.
A Virginia Jury awarded her $10.35 million in damages on June 1, stating that Heard had defamed her when she wrote a 2018 Washington Post op-ed in which she identified herself as a victim of domestic violence.
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The panel ruled in Heard’s favor on one of the counterclaims and awarded him $2 million in damages.
The verdict came after a sensational six-week trial in Fairfax County Circuit Court that was televised internationally.
Both Depp and “Aquaman” actor appeal the sentence.