Four artworks by one of the founding members of The Beatles are going on display to the public for the first time.
The pieces, created by the band's original bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe, will be unveiled at the Liverpool Beatles Museum on Thursday.
Sutcliffe joined the band after meeting John Lennon at art school in Liverpool and travelled to Hamburg to perform with them.
He left the group in 1961 to concentrate on his art career.
He died the following year, aged 21, after a brain haemorrhage.
Four of his works have been loaned to the museum by Hereward Harrison, a close friend of Sutcliffe's sister, Pauline.
He said Pauline Sutcliffe, who died in 2019, gave him the pieces as presents over their 50 years of friendship, and he had them framed and kept them on his wall.
Harrison, 82, decided to put them on public display after a conversation at a party with someone who suggested he contact the museum.
He said: "Pauline would be delighted. She would be so pleased I was taking them back to Liverpool."
The artworks include a sketch of people on a bridge, created when Stuart Sutcliffe was a student at the Liverpool College of Art, and three abstract pieces from his time working and studying in Hamburg.
Harrison said his favourite of the works is a collage, which includes bits of a German newspaper.
He said: "Most people are interested in the Beatles connection and I like The Beatles, but there are two stories here, that he happened to be a Beatle but also about him as an artist.
"He is famous because he was a Beatle, but his real talent was art."
Harrison met Pauline Sutcliffe when they were both working as social workers in Brixton, London, in the 1960s and they became firm friends.
"We had such fun," he said.
"She would talk about her brother. He was a very talented young man."
He said Pauline Sutcliffe, who wrote a book about her brother and organised exhibitions of his art, had "kept her brother's memory alive".
The items are the latest exhibits to go on display at the Mathew Street museum owned by Roag Best, brother of original Beatles drummer Pete Best.
Source: Press Association
