Johnny Depp featured in The Times

As artwork, this gaudy palette and scribbled lines depicting 20th-century rebels would not look out of place in a teenage bedroom or student digs.

But their maker’s profile among his fans as misunderstood artist has launched Johnny Depp’s career in a new direction, selling out thousands of prints in just a few days.

A series of limited edition images of the reggae star Bob Marley, writer Hunter S Thompson and actors Heath Ledger and River Phoenix went up for sale through the Castle Fine Art Gallery in London, last Monday.

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