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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
YOKO ONO (1933- ) & JOHN LENNON (1940-1980)
A Box of Smile. Paper covered board box and silver foil, 1972. 82x80x78 mm; 3¼x3⅛x3 inches. Released in conjunction with the One to One Benefit Concert, Madison Square Garden, 1972, headlined by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band.
Lennon's performance at Madison Square Garden was the only full-length show he played after the Beatles' split two years earlier. After his passing, Ono released another edition of these boxes, made of plastic and containing a mirror, stating "I just wanted to have a box that people can look into, and when they're sad and angry and all that, to see how it looks smiling. When John passed away and I was feeling so drab about it, and I looked at the mirror and I looked horrible. So I said, 'This is not going to work, you know.' So really put myself into smiling, and it didn't work in the beginning. But gradually it worked, and my whole body was smiling. I mean, it took like a month or two to get to that point. And so I created something that worked for me, afterwards."
