Syd Barrett’s Earliest Known Work of Art to be Auctioned

The earliest known work of art by Pink Floyd founding member Roger Keith ‘Syd’ Barrett is set to go under the hammer at Thomson Roddick Callan’s auction of fine art in Carlisle on July 30. The pastel and watercolour work was painted at home in Cambridge in 1963 while studying at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, where he met soon-to-be Pink Floyd member David Gilmour. The following year, he enrolled at Camberwell College of Arts in London to study painting, and in 1965, Pink Floyd began to emerge from London’s underground music scene to become one of the most influential psychedelic rock bands of all time. Unfortunately, Syd’s time with the band was brief due to various personal issues, and he officially left the band in 1968 to pursue a solo career, but not before he had made...