Incredible personal check, 6 x 2.75, filled out in another hand and signed by John Lennon, payable to Nancy Gosnell for $3000, July 16, 1980, with memo field noting the payment for a "Portrait–dep." In very good to fine condition, with staple holes to the upper left corner, an area of thin paper beneath the memo line, and mounting residue on the reverse.In June of 1980, Lennon sailed to Bermuda aboard the Megan Jaye, a 43-ft sloop based in Newport, Rhode Island. He settled in the 'Villa Undercliff,' a residential area located in the island's Fairylands section, and soon made arrangements to bring his four-year-old son Sean down to join him. Lennon rekindled his love for music while on vacation and wrote a collection of 30 new songs, his first novel output in over five years; the songs would later become the basis for his last album, Double Fantasy, named after a freesia flower he saw in the Bermuda Botanical Gardens. During his time on the island, Lennon commissioned local artist Nancy Gosnell to paint a portrait of himself and his son, which he later hung above his piano in his Dakota apartment. According to Gosnell: 'They both sat down on the rug in the living room where I had set up my easel…He spoke about his life and the Beatles and how Yoko had been his savior, and he had been a mess and overweight and she had put him on a brown-rice diet. He did impersonations for me. I remember him doing Henry Kissinger, and he sang a little. One of the songs he sang was 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.' Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tracks.Format: Check