Johnny Depp just debuted his first self-portrait, for sale as a limited edition: the Jeanne du Barry actor began the intimate artwork, titled Five, during a ‘dark’ time amid his trial with Amber Heard
- Johnny Depp looked to his Dior Sauvage campaign photo as a starting point for Five, which went on sale on July 20 for 13 days at US$1,950 per signed copy
- Although the actor has created art before – like the sold-out Friends & Heroes series – this is the first time he has captured his own image, which he views as an act of creative healing
Johnny Depp has painted the emotions of recent years into a self-portrait – and is offering the result for sale as a time-limited edition.
“I think this is the most personal piece he’s ever done,” said Ian Weatherby-Blythe, managing director of Castle Fine Art, which is handling the sale of Five. The gallery also oversaw Depp’s sold-out debut art collection, the series of portraits Friends & Heroes.
“He revisited the eyes over and over and over again. And when you look at the piece, you know, it’s a beautiful portrait. But when you look at the eyes there’s something very meaningful behind the eyes, there’s something, you know, quite sad.”
“It was created at a time that was, let’s say, a bit dark, a bit confusing,” Depp said in a video released Thursday to promote the sale.
“Essentially, I just wrote Five on there because I was just about to enter the fifth year of the madness.”
Priced from £1,950 (US$1,950), signed editions of Five went on sale at 4pm GMT on Thursday for 13 days.
Heard filed for divorce in May 2016, seeking a temporary restraining order against the Pirates of the Caribbean star.
