With their ‘Live ’25’ tour starting next month The ‘fever’ for Oasis And Britpop returns.

Portrait of the brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher by Elizabeth Paiton is sold by Sotheby’s at the best time. The 1996 painting is among the top works at the London House Contemporary Art Auction on June 24, with an estimated sale price of 1.5 – 2 million pounds of England (2.03 – 2.71 million).

Created after their appearances at Knebworth Park, which wrote history as the biggest concerts in the United Kingdom, the Liam + Noel (Gallagher) project was based on a photo of the brothers just a year ago. The painting belongs to a central series of Paiton’s works with the Gallacher brothers, one of which was sold for $ 4.1 million last year.

In 1996 it was a landmark year for Oasis, as I appeared at the biggest live concerts ever organized in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that the Knebworth Park 500,000 people watched the two concerts and it was a decisive moment in the history of Britpop.

Oasis in 1994 with their debut album “Definitely Maybe” immediately won the crown of Britpop kings with Blur and Pulp.

By 1995, Oasis was a cultural force, but their relationship was an unstable blend of creative brilliance and slightly controlled hostility, a report by Rolling Stone said.

The rivalry of the Gallacher brothers was not just a food for the press, it was the soul of the Oasis, leading the band to the top, but threatened to dissolve it at every step, it is noted.

“Noel Gallagher left the Oasis. He could no longer withstand the atmosphere. Could not withstand rock and roll »Liam once jerked, while Noel once described Liam as “The most angry man you will ever meet.”

The relationship fueled their rise and their final decline.

In the portrait that will be sold at the end of June, Noel and Liam Gallagher wear sportswear hugs, but in their faces full of eyebrows and pink cheeks there is the quiet intensity of their potential at a professional-private level. “It’s a photo for the press, they have hands around each other, but you can feel this kind of light intensity within it. It seems so prophetic, knowing now how everything ended up ”, Antonia Gardner told The Guardian.

Peyton has established her title as one of the most decisive American portraits of the time.