Yoko Ono

Original flyer for Yoko Ono’s exhibition Unfinished Painting & Objects at the Indica Gallery, London, 1966.

• Flyer has various fold lines which, when matched, reveal the exhibition title, date and location.

The occasion is significant in Beatles history because it is the date when John and Yoko first met. Co-owner Dunbar invited his friend John Lennon to the gallery to see the exhibition the day before it opened. Yoko first approached John with a card that read "breathe" to which John replied with a pant. While browsing the exhibition, a particular piece caught his eye, a ladder that led up to a canvas on the ceiling bearing a single tiny word which required the viewer to use a magnifying glass. During an interview in 1971 with Rolling Stone, John recalled his meeting with Yoko during the exhibition: I felt relieved. It’s a great relief when you get up the ladder and you look through the spyglass and it doesn’t say "no" or "fuck you" or something, it said "yes."