A lost painting by a great Scottish artist of the Beatles in the hippy, trippy days of the late 1960s has gone on show in Glasgow.
John Byrne’s portrait of the Fab Four, complete with a supporting cast of wide-eyed animals, was commissioned in 1968 and later used as the cover image ofThe Beatles BalladsLP.
The original work is thought to have disappeared from EMI records, but an earlier version was discovered in the collection of Father Tom Jamieson, a Renfrew parish priest and a friend of the artist.
The painting features inTwo Glasgow Polymaths,an exhibition of works byByrneand his contemporaryAlasdair Grayat Lyon & Turnbull’s Glasgow gallery.
Both men were graduates of the Glasgow School of Art
