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On December 3, 2009, TMZ posted up the photo above and the news that Sly sold one of his paintings to Steve Wynn [yes, the Vegas casino owner]. The painting went for $40,000 [and another by Sly, a self-portrait went for $50,000]!
You can read the full piece here.
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You can also read the New York Post’s coverage.
Stylelist.com posted the pic above with a story about the celebs in Miami. Read the full post here.
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And here’s another piece that talks about Sly at the show.
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NBC Miami also covered the event.
On December 3, 2009, Daily Mail Online posted the photo above with some other shots of Sly’s paintings along with a story about Sly selling some of his paintings in Miami. You can read the full piece by clicking here.
Actor Sylvester Stallone, right, looks at artwork shown by the Mayer Gallery with Hans Mayer, left, during the Art Basel Miami Beach Vernissage in Miami Beach, Fla. Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009.
(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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– Craig Zablo
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This week’s POW comes from Nicole Codd! – Craig Zablo
SZoner, “Joe Tanto Hummer” sent in a bunch of pictures that he had taken, over the years, of his visits to Stallone movie premieres, Planet Hollywood openings, and the like. Unfortunately most of the pictures were taken without a flash at night or had glare or something that prevented them from being used. We did want to share these EXCLUSIVE pics from Joe.
This is a cool candid that Tanto picked up of Sly and one of his paintings.
Here’s a shot of Sly and Jen at a 1995 Planet Hollywood opening.
Tanto wanted to be sure that we all got to see this building-sized poster for Tango and Cash!
Thanks to Joe for sharing! – Craig Zablo [September 28, 2002]
There is currently an auction running on ebay.com for the original Sylvester Stallone art posted above. The original oil painting titled “Hero” by the internationally acclaimed, academy-award winning actor, Sylvester Stallone was painted as a tribute to the firemen ‘heroes” whose efforts contributed to saving lives involved in the September 11th tragedy as well as the firemen whose lives were sacrificed. This piece was painted specifically for a charity event that raised money for the Sept. 11 Fund. The painting is 4′ by 8’ and depicts a fireman (center in blue), a clock commemorating the time of day (6:10am PST) that he heard about the tragedy (the ‘o’ in hero in the upper left corner), the words “heven (sic) is closed” (right side in white) as well as other intricate remembrances of the tragedy that were poignant to him. His famous signature can be seen in blue in the lower right hand corner (and is reprinted below).
On October 9, 2001, SLY STALLONE and his wife JENNIFER FLAVIN attended the Art Heals benefit in Santa Monica, California. All the money raised from the event, along with artwork created by celebrities will go to the September 11th fund to aid victims of the attacks on 9/11 in New York and Washington.
Our P.O.W. for this week is an artistic photo of Sly (standing before one of his Rocky paintings).
Special thanks to SZoner Ernest “Jazzman” Resendes for sharing with us! – Craig Zablo (July 15, 2001)