Clapton forks out $120k on canvas art
Published on: 17-Aug-2007
Music legend Eric Clapton has spent $120,000 on a collection of canvas art.The former Cream guitarist has splashed the cash on 12 canvas artworks by Lee Quinones, who specialises in graffiti art.
According to Rolling Stone, Clapton has been a fan of Quinones' work for many years and he jumped at the chance to get his hands on the latest impressive collection.
Each painting depicts a shoplifter stealing an album from the 1970s and this blend of musical iconography and stunning art evidently proved too much for Clapton to resist.
Quinones has a number of celebrity fans - many of whom were contacted about the sale - but Clapton's early interest meant that none of the others had a chance to launch a bid.
"He was the first. Like within ten minutes," Quinones told Rolling Stone.
"He never even saw them in person and was like, 'Lee, they're mine.'"
Albums featured in the new canvas art collection include James Brown's Sex Machine, Babe Ruth's The Mexican, Lonnie Liston Smith's Expansions and Dennis Coffey's Scorpio.
"The paintings are a celebration of the times, musicians and those songs," Quinones said.
"These paintings are exploding with colour and then have a ghostly image of my hand - a kind of skimpy drawing of my hand to symbolise that I had to be invisible in that store 'cause you knew you had to go back in and do it again," he said.
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