LONDON (Reuters) – A British retail painting group has offered a self-portrait that Hollywood star Johnny Depp drew of himself when he was going through a rough patch and a legal battle over his former marriage to actress Amber Heard. Work began on the painting called “Five” in 2021 in the studio of the British painter Ralph Steadman, and it was completed this year. “This self-portrait was drawn at a time that was a little difficult, a little confusing,” Depp said in a video clip.
“I looked at her and I don’t know why she felt like she needed something else,” he added. She needed more information. I just wrote five on it because I was about to enter the fifth year of madness.’
Depp met Heard on the set of a movie and they married in 2015, and the actress filed for divorce just over a year later. Their stormy relationship was revealed through two trials.
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Last year, a US jury awarded Depp an almost complete victory in his defamation battle with his ex-wife, who accused him of abusing her. Depp denied hitting Heard or any other woman.
Depp said that the “five” painting was inspired by a photo taken of him in 2015, when he became the face of a Dior men’s perfume. “All the time, as painful as it was,” Depp said in the clip. Dior stood by her conviction and it was unbelievable.” Depp’s painting joins his “Friends and Heroes” collection, which depicts celebrities such as Elizabeth Taylor, Al Pacino, Bob Dylan and Keith Richards, which was sold through Castle Fine Art, a British retail group of art galleries. A copy of the self-portrait can be obtained at a price of $ 1,950, and it is a time-limited edition, as it will be available for sale for only 13 days. Depp said $200 of the proceeds from each sale will be donated to Mental Health America, a mental health nonprofit.
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