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Headline: UNCAPTIONED: Johnny Depp unveils debut self-portrait
Caption: Johnny Depp has unveiled his debut self-portrait. Castle Fine Art debuted the actor's self-portrait, titled Five, on Thursday and announced that it is available to buy for 13 days. The art piece has been painted in the same style as the 60-year-old's first art series, Friends & Heroes, and was inspired by a photo that he had taken at a Christian Dior Perfumes photoshoot in 2015. ”I did this at (illustrator) Ralph Steadman's in his studio around 2021," Johnny explained in a video interview. ”This self-portrait - it was created at a time that was... let's say a bit dark, a bit confusing. I looked at it and I don't know why, I thought it needed something else. It needed further... information.” "When I felt the need to write basically the counting down of the years, essentially I just wrote 'five' on there because I was just entering the fifth year of... the madness.” A press release stated The Pirates of the Caribbean star "immersed himself in creating the work as a means of creative healing" back in 2021 and returned to the project earlier this year. ”It's not the most comfortable thing doing a self-portrait," the star admitted in the interview. ”Although, in a weird way, almost everything you do is a self-portrait in one way or another.” Johnny revealed that a portion of the profits made from each print of the portrait will be donated to the non-profit organisation Mental Health America. He described the organisation as "an extremely deserving cause”. The actor previously made over $3.6 million (£2.8 million) when he released Friends & Heroes in 2022. THIS VIDEO MUST NOT BE EDITED FOR LENGTH TO COMBINE WITH OTHER CONTENT
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