Before the auction, few people knew that Brosnan-who studied commercial illustration in college and worked at an advertising firm in his early years in London-was an artist. It’s a longstanding passion of his, and a creative outlet he’s credited with helping him recover from the 1991 death of his first wife, Cassandra. But it’s also one he feels ambivalent about displaying publicly, even today.

 

“I love to paint. I don't paint enough. I have a body of work that I wish to show, expose, exhibit. There's been word of doing an exhibit in Paris. That's been talked about. I don't know,” Brosnan says. “I think if I do an exhibit, I feel it should be in Los Angeles. Have a showing. Turn the lights down low. Have some margaritas and some wine, good music.”