Artists in the Orient sign their works with an individual, patented stamp known as a chop. He personally signed each lithograph and attended the premier opening in London. These drawings depicted John and Yoko's wedding and honeymoon and he presented them to her as a wedding gift. When the drawings were released as lithographs they were confiscated by police in several countries because the erotic contents of some of the drawings was considered to be obscene. Although the charges fo obscenity never held up in court, many of the lithographs were destroyed by mishandling and John was s discouraged from showing his artwork in public for many years after.
Serigraphs use a silkscreen to reproduce fine lines and colors.
Stone lithographs are hand-pulled on a printing press using stone plates with the image transferred to the fine art paper. Each artwork was released in the medium most suited to capturing the original drawing. Each limited edition fine art print is authenticated by John Lennon's embossed signature, the embossed printer and publisher's mark, Yoko Ono Lennon's hand-signature, and John's personal chop mark. At the time of his death, John had saved and preserved several hundred drawings that he considered important. In 1986, Yoko Ono, acting for the John Lennon Estate, began releasing limited editions of some of the most meaningful drawings, using only fine art printing techniques, with the goal of re-establishing John Lennon as an important artist of his time.