Posted on 02/25/2022 8:00:18 AM PST by fluorescence
Plans to sell artwork created for a pair of classic Queen albums were thwarted when one was thrown away.
Art director David Costa wanted to sell the original artworks he created for the 1975 vinyl album A Night At The Opera and A Day At The Races from 1976.
However, only A Day At The Races can be sold because Mr Costa believes he threw away the cover for the earlier record while clearing his studio.
The artwork had been valued at between £5,000 and £10,000.
"An unwitting triumph of tidiness over posterity, I've now come to the inevitable conclusion that A Night At The Opera became a casualty of my over-enthusiastic effort to begin clearing through 50 years of personal ephemera," said Mr Costa.
"A shame, but in the grand scheme of things, not a global catastrophe."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Mamma Mia!
“I’m just a ‘Artwork’. Nobody loves me!”
What a weird headline.
Anyway, did the queer Queen have something for the Marx Bros?
He might consider theft.
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