Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own | On Stage
Freddie Mercury: A World of His Own | On Stage
A T-Shirt with Freddie Mercury’s hand-drawn signed artwork for an unusual ‘Queen’ logo, 1978
Auction Closed
September 7, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A T-Shirt with Freddie Mercury’s hand-drawn signed artwork for an unusual ‘Queen’ logo, 1978
A long-sleeved ivory cotton T-shirt decorated with hand-drawn (probably stencilled) illustrated lettering - 5cm high, in black ink spelling ‘QUEEN’ from a design of naked women in yoga poses, initialled ‘FM’ – this initialled hand drawn artwork appears to be the only known example of this Freddie ‘Queen’ design; a Neal Preston photograph from the ‘Jazz ‘Tour of North America, 1978 shows Mary Austin wearing this T-shirt sitting beside Freddie on an airplane
SPECIAL NOTICE
This lot is being sold for private use only. No right to reproduce or otherwise commercially exploit the copyright or other intellectual property in the lots is included with the sale of lot. Queen Productions Limited and Queen Music Limited and other rights holders reserve all their rights.
The drawing of the legs of the naked female forms which make up the lettering of this T-shirt are very similar in style to those of the fairies on Freddie’s design for the Queen crest included in this auction.