Johnny Depp unveils his first self-portrait and everyone's saying the same thing

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By Asiya Ali

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Social media users are reacting to the release of Johnny Depp's first self-portrait.

The artwork, titled Five, was created by the 60-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean star and debuted on Castle Fine Art's social media pages on Thursday (July 20).

The work will be marketed as a time-limited edition, with prospective buyers given just 13 days from Thursday to purchase the actor's artwork, according to PEOPLE.

It has also been reported that $200 from each sale in the exhibition will go to Mental Health America, and the prints - which feature Depp's handwritten signature - are priced from $2,500, per The Independent.

Check out Depp's self-portrait below: 

The self-portrait is painted in the style of the Hollywood star's previous "Friends and Heroes" art series, which showcased luminous, color-block illustrations of pop culture icons.

Discussing the project in a recent video interview with Castle Galleries, Depp revealed that "Five" was inspired by a photograph he took at a Christian Dior Perfumes photoshoot in 2015 with photographer Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

The Edwards Scissorhands star shared that he absorbed himself in completing the work as a means of creative healing in 2021 and returned to the project earlier this year before deciding to share it publicly.

"I did this at [illustrator] Ralph Steadman’s in his studio around 2021," he explained. "This self-portrait - it was created at a time that was, let’s say a bit dark, a bit confusing. I looked at it and I don’t know why, I thought it needed something else. It needed further... information.

"When I felt the need to write basically the counting down of the years, essentially I just wrote 'five' on there because I was just entering the fifth year of the madness," the actor added.

Upon seeing the embattled actor's painting, many people on social media have remarked that they all "want" to purchase the limited-edition artwork.

One user wrote: "I want that piece of artwork!! I just love how honest he is about who he is and not ashamed to be true... Such a very talented, handsome man."

While another person said: "I want this portrait so bad! LOVE Johnny!"

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Elsewhere in the interview, the Fantastic Beasts star noted that he felt Dior "stuck to their guns" in working with him since 2015, even during the period he lost multiple film roles due to his legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard.

After Depp was awarded $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages after a jury ultimately ruled that the 37-year-old actress defamed him in 2022, he returned to his acting career and even signed a new deal with Dior worth more than $20 million in May.

"It’s not the most comfortable thing doing a self-portrait," he admitted in the video. "Although, in a weird way, almost everything you do is a self-portrait in one way or another."

There are eight days left to purchase Depp's "Five," which is exclusively on Castle Fine Art's website.

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