Provenance

(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, top center stamped in blue ink: KENNETH ROSS / and ASSOCIATES; upper left stamped in black ink: S. H. FEATURES; by unknown hand, upper left in blue ink: 4610; upper center: 1 7/16" [arrow] / 2 1/2"; upper center stamped in red ink: 246 COLLINS STREET; upper center stamped in blue ink: MELBOURNE 637; by unknown hand, upper center in graphite: SHF p70; center left in graphite: [arrow]; center in blue ink: THE WHO [underlined] / L-R / John Entwhistle [sic] / Keith Moore [sic] / Roger Daltry [sic] / Pete Townsend [by unknown hand in black ink: ✓]; center right stamped in black ink: 17 NOV 1969; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: [arrow]; lower left stamped in purple ink: USED / 16 NOV 1969 / SUN-HERALD; lower center printed in black ink on applied newspaper: PETE Towns- / hend's [sic] rock op- / era "Tommy" is the / first major work / written in the pop / idiom.; lower center stamped in purple ink inverted: 29 DEC 1977; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite underlined: THE WHO; lower right stamped in red ink: 26 JAN 1968; bottom left printed in black ink on applied newspaper: THE WHO; bottom center stamped in purple ink: USED / 10 NOV 1969 / DAILY SUN; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: [arrow]; bottom right stamped in blue ink: 11 NOV 1969; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite crossed out in black ink: 100%; bottom right in black ink: 129