Lot Essay
According to Mr Odell George, Marvin Gaye had three identical stage jackets made, the above one in brown velvet, another in green velvet and another in black velvet.
Details
MARVIN GAYE
A brown velvet stage jacket decorated at the shoulders with embroidered orange, yellow and green flower heads and mirrored sequins; accompanied by a copy of Black Stars Magazine, January 1975, featuring several photographs of Gaye wearing a similar jacket on stage at Chicago's Amphitheatre; and a copy of Step News International, May 1976, featuring a photograph of Gaye on the front cover wearing this jacket at a Charity Concert in Radio City Music Hall, New York where he was presented with a U.S. State Department Ambassador of Good Will award by Shirley Temple Black.
A brown velvet stage jacket decorated at the shoulders with embroidered orange, yellow and green flower heads and mirrored sequins; accompanied by a copy of Black Stars Magazine, January 1975, featuring several photographs of Gaye wearing a similar jacket on stage at Chicago's Amphitheatre; and a copy of Step News International, May 1976, featuring a photograph of Gaye on the front cover wearing this jacket at a Charity Concert in Radio City Music Hall, New York where he was presented with a U.S. State Department Ambassador of Good Will award by Shirley Temple Black.
Provenance
The collection of Mr Odell 'Gorgeous' George, Marvin Gaye's valet and M.C. from the 1960s-1970s.