John McEnroe sells Charles Manson-inspired painting for $10.4M
Retired tennis star John McEnroe made some serious cash last week, selling a painting inspired by serial killer Charles Manson for $10.4 million, according to reports.
McEnroe, 59, sold his “Helter Skelter I” painting at a Phillips auction in London, Bloomberg reported. It had been hanging in his New York City apartment since he acquired it about four years ago.
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Mark Bradford, a Los Angeles artist born in 1961, created the 34-foot-wide, 12-foot-long piece of art in 2007, reports said. His annual sales at auctions were nearly $7 million last year, peaking at over $17 million in 2015.
Artnet reported the painting “evokes the urban landscape of the artist’s native Los Angeles,” as the title of the work references Charles Manson’s “vision of a race war between blacks and whites.”