Rare early photographs of U2 are expected to fetch thousands of euro next week when they go under the hammer at a Dublin auction house.
As the band continues to fill arenas across America during their sell out Vertigo world tour, the sale will ensure they stay in focus at home.
Having already achieved a record €12,000 price for a signed photograph of the band by world-renowned photographer, Anton Corbijn late last year, James Adams Salerooms is now offering a collection of four previously unseen prints by the same lensman.
The black and white pictures feature the four members of U2 - Bono, The Edge, Larry Mullen and Adam Clayton - and the child who featured on the band's Boy and War albums in the early 1980s.
The prints are accompanied by a hand written note to Bono from the photographer and are estimated to sell for between €8000 - to €12000 as a combined lot.
Jane Beattie, head of fine art at Adam's, said the auctioneers were expecting to achieve another record price in next Tuesday's Contemporary and Modern Art Sale.
"These very poignant photographs of the band belong to and feature Peter Rowen (aka Radar), the young man that was the face of U2's most iconic early album covers," she said. "We are privileged to be offering such a unique collection of early photographs of the band and expect considerable interest in this lot from both fans of U2 and of Corbijn's photography.
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