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The perfect tribute! Ronnie Wood, 66, puts a nude portrait of his wife Sally Humphreys, 36, up for sale for a staggering £200,000

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:06, 9 May 2024 | UPDATED: 15:21, 9 May 2024

Outside his music, he is most famous for his portraits of his grizzled bandmates.

But on this occasion, Ronnie Wood’s muse couldn’t have been more different from a veteran rocker.

The Rolling Stones guitarist has produced a delicate full-frontal nude painting of a women believed to be his young wife.

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Who’s that girl? Ronnie Wood has produced a delicate full-frontal nude painting of a women believed to be his young wife Sally Humphreys

The work of art, simply titled Sally, bears a striking resemblance to 36-year-old theatre director Sally Humphreys, whom he wed in December 2024.

The dark-hair women is shown posing seductively on her knees and lifting her arms above her head.

The painting comes with a £200,000 price tag and is on display at the Castle Fine Art gallery in London’s Mayfair, where Wood is artist-in-residence.

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Happy couple: The Rolling Stones rocker tied the knot with the striking brunette back in December 2024

The 66-year-old musician trained as an artist before joining the Rolling Stones in 1975, when he replaced guitarist Mick Taylor in the band.

He studied at Ealing College of Art in London and when he was 14, his music teacher paid him £4 for a snow scene.

He has since received widespread critical acclaim for his paintings, which mostly include images of Sir Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. He has previously revealed how he listens to Mozart while working at his easel.

Wood said: ‘When I get inspired, I get almost possessed and I just have to paint. There is no kind of therapy like the one you have from starting and seeing a picture through to the end.’

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What a tribute: The painting in question is titled merely ‘Sally’ and is on display at the Castle Fine Art gallery in London¿s Mayfair – with a hefty price tag of £200,000

‘I get the musical mode when I’m on tour – I might do a few sketches – but I’m mainly concentrating on the music. Then when the tour’s over I can relax and I then find myself getting the brush out. Music and art is very relaxing to me.’

Prices for Wood’s artwork range from around £1,500 for a signed limited edition print up to around £300,000, which the star charged for a recent portrait of the Rolling Stones.

It was in 2024 that Wood painted a female nude who was believed to be 19-yearold Kazakhstan-born cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova with whom he had an affair while he was married to his ex-wife Jo.

He sold the picture for £8,000 in Gallery Number One in Dublin – 20 miles from the house in County Kildare to which Wood fled with the teenager.