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\nThe late Stuart Sutcliffe left The Beatles to concentrate on his art career<\/p>\n
Four artworks by one of the founding members of The Beatles are going on display to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n
The pieces, created by the band’s original bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe, will be unveiled at the Liverpool Beatles Museum on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Sutcliffe joined the band after meeting John Lennon at art school in Liverpool and travelled to Hamburg to perform with them.<\/p>\n
He left the group in 1961 to concentrate on his art career.<\/p>\n
He died the following year, aged 21, after a brain haemorrhage.<\/p>\n
\nThe late Stuart Sutcliffe left The Beatles to concentrate on his art career<\/p>\n
Four of his works have been loaned to the museum by Hereward Harrison, a close friend of Sutcliffe’s sister, Pauline.<\/p>\n
He said Pauline Sutcliffe, who died in 2019, gave him the pieces as presents over their 50 years of friendship, and he had them framed and kept them on his wall.<\/p>\n
Harrison, 82, decided to put them on public display after a conversation at a party with someone who suggested he contact the museum.<\/p>\n
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\nThe artworks include a sketch of people on a bridge, created when Stuart Sutcliffe was a student at the Liverpool College of Art<\/p>\n
He said: “Pauline would be delighted. She would be so pleased I was taking them back to Liverpool.”<\/p>\n
The artworks include a sketch of people on a bridge, created when Stuart Sutcliffe was a student at the Liverpool College of Art, and three abstract pieces from his time working and studying in Hamburg.<\/p>\n
Harrison said his favourite of the works is a collage, which includes bits of a German newspaper.<\/p>\n
He said: “Most people are interested in the Beatles connection and I like The Beatles, but there are two stories here, that he happened to be a Beatle but also about him as an artist.<\/p>\n
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\nThe works have been loaned to the museum by Hereward Harrison, a close friend of Stuart Sutcliffe’s sister, Pauline<\/p>\n
“He is famous because he was a Beatle, but his real talent was art.”<\/p>\n
Harrison met Pauline Sutcliffe when they were both working as social workers in Brixton, London, in the 1960s and they became firm friends.<\/p>\n
“We had such fun,” he said.<\/p>\n
“She would talk about her brother. He was a very talented young man.”<\/p>\n
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\n“He is famous because he was a Beatle, but his real talent was art”<\/p>\n
He said Pauline Sutcliffe, who wrote a book about her brother and organised exhibitions of his art, had “kept her brother’s memory alive”.<\/p>\n
The items are the latest exhibits to go on display at the Mathew Street museum owned by Roag Best, brother of original Beatles drummer Pete Best.<\/p>\n
Source: Press Association<\/p>\n