Paul McCartney’s uncommon Sixties images to be proven by Gagosian in London.

Beatlemania is returning to London. Gagosian will current a brand new exhibition of images by Paul McCartney documenting the earliest months of Beatlemania, on the cusp of the band’s rise to worldwide fame. “Rearview Mirror: Liverpool—London—Paris” opens on August twenty eighth on the gallery’s Davies Street location in London, that includes uncommon, signed prints drawn from the musician’s private archive.

The present spans works from December 1963 to February 1964, when The Beatles’s reputation within the United Kingdom started to blow up. Taken with McCartney’s 35mm Pentax digital camera, the photographs comply with the group as they toured in Britain and carried out a three-week residency in Paris. Together, the works type a uncommon look contained in the band’s most formative period.

McCartney’s images file moments linked to key milestones within the band’s historical past. These embrace their first headlining UK tour, a record-breaking look on the BBC’s Juke Box Jury, performances on The Beatles Christmas Show, and time spent on the Olympia Theatre in Paris. Notably, the pictures precede their February 7, 1964, departure for New York, the journey that marked their American debut.

A whole lot of these photographs are from negatives and speak to sheets believed to be misplaced for greater than 50 years. Each print has been remastered and signed by McCartney, produced in small editions. Large contact sheets depict candid vignettes backstage at venues such because the Lewisham Odeon and London Palladium, in addition to a tense behind-the-scenes glimpse of the band departing the London airport for the United States.

“Rearview Mirror” follows the McCartney’s debut at Gagosian earlier this yr on the gallery’s Beverly Hills department and coincides with the touring exhibition “Paul McCartney Photographs 1963–64: Eyes of the Storm.” That present originated on the National Portrait Gallery in 2023 and is at present on view on the de Young Museum in San Francisco, via October fifth.

Beyond his images, McCartney additionally took up portray after a dialog with Willem de Kooning within the early Nineteen Eighties. He has offered his work on the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol in 2000 and on the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool in 2002, amongst different venues.