BOB DYLAN SIGNED STATUE OF LIBERTY LTD EDITION 184/295 DRAWN BLANK COLLECTION WORK OF ART BY LEGENDARY ARTIST Start Price GBP 1,700.00 Current Price GBP 1,700.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price GBP 2,000.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, October 08, 2008 End Time Saturday, October 18, 2008 Location Kent See more about 'BOB DYLAN SIGNED STATUE OF LIBERTY LTD EDITION 184/295' Description STATUE OF LIBERTY BOB DYLANLIMITED EDITION GRAPHICDRAWN BLANK COLLECTIONNUMBERED 184 FROM LTD EDITION OF 295SIZE: 27'' X 22''MEDIUM: GICLEEHAND SIGNED BY BOB DYLAN ORIGINAL PURCHASE DOCUMENT AUTHENTICATION (GALLERY) WILL BE SUPPLIED WITH THE WORK.    A MINT CONDITION ' DRAWN BLANK ' AUTHENTIC, ORIGINAL, 72 PAGE EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, WILL BE INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA CHARGE.   SHIPPING AND INSURANCE UK & INTERNATIONAL IS FREE, SAFE/SECURE SIGNED FOR ON DELIVERY (ROYAL MAIL).   OF PARTICULAR SIGNIFICANCE, ESPECIALLY BEARING IN MIND BOB DYLANS ICONIC STATUS AS A WORDSMITH, LYRICIST & POET, THIS WORK FEATURES THE STATUE OF LIBERTY HOLDING A NEWSPAPER WITH THE HEADLINE 'RAPE IS NOT SEX'   '' You always knew he could sing and write lyrics that are poetry. But (as Dylan buffs no doubt already know) Dylan is also an accomplished artist. Developed from a series of sketches made by Dylan while touring between 1989 and 1992, the subjects reflect a singer’s life on tour, cast in different lights with different hues. “About that time I began to make some of my own drawings…what would I draw?” wrote Dylan in Bob Dylan: Chronicals: Volume One. “Well I guess I would start with whatever was at hand.” Subjects range from a view through iron railings, chairs in a room, a winding staircase, a bedside chest of drawers, a motel pool. But there is also a smattering of still lives, portraits and horses. “The emptiness of the scene and the slightly elevated point of observation are typical of Dylan’s work as a whole,” writes the poet, Andrew Motion, describing a series of pool paintings. “Yet the solitude of the gaze brings its own rewards – and that is characteristic too. Dylan’s vision in this image is finely balanced between isolation and involvement.” In an interview in The Times of London, Dylan cited Matisse, Derain, Monet and Gauguin as having made an impact on him when he was in his twenties. Bob Dylan is one of the most influential and, at times, controversial figures in the music world of the last five decades. Over the last forty-six years he has released forty-four albums and written over five hundred songs including 'Blowin' in the Wind', 'The Times They Are A-Changin', 'Like a Rolling Stone', 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' and 'Make You Feel My Love'. Selling over 110 million records around the world, his songs have been covered more than three thousand times by artists as diverse as Sonny and Cher, The Byrds, the Rolling Stones, Duke Ellington, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Jarrett, Guns N' Roses, Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Marley, Pearl Jam and Neil Young. Bob Dylan's music has been recognised and honoured with many awards. He received an honorary doctorate of music from Princeton University, New Jersey in 1970 and from St Andrews University, Scotland in 2004. In addition to winning numerous Grammy Awards, his song 'Things Have Changed' from the film 'Wonder Boys' (2000) won him an Academy Award in 2001 and his last album, 'Modern Times' (2006), entered the charts at number one in America, and charted Top Five in over twenty-one countries around the world. From his performances in Greenwich Village coffee houses, festivals and rallies in the early 1960s, to his stadium concerts of the 1970s and his subsequent worldwide tours, Bob Dylan has built his musical reputation on the strength of his live appearances. He has played no fewer than one hundred s hows a year since 1988 and has performed alongside other major artists such as Joan Baez, Tom Petty, George Harrison, the Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.Although Bob Dylan is best known as a singer and songwriter, he is also a writer, film director, actor, radio broadcaster and artist. His experimental collection of writings, 'Tarantula', was published in 1970 and his autobiography 'Chronicles: Volume One', released in 2004, became an international bestseller. Bob Dylan has both directed and acted in a number of films, making his first appearance in 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' (1973) and more recently in 'Masked and Anonymous' (2003). A collection of Bob Dylan's drawings and sketches, made while on a tour of America, Europe and Asia between 1989 and 1992, were published in 'Drawn Blank' in 1994. These drawings were re-worked and first shown at a museum exhibition in Germany in autumn 2007, and at Halcyon Gallery, London in 2008.In April 2008, Dylan received a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize 'for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power'. A major exhibition of selected works from 'The Drawn Blank Series', together with new re-worked versions, and a magnificent collection of Signed Limited Edition graphics was premiered across the UK summer 2008.''   THE DRAWN BLANK SERIES Whilst travelling on tour between 1989 and 1992, Bob Dylan created a collection of drawings that were published in a book entitled 'Drawn Blank' in 1994. These expressive works capture Dylan's chance encounters and observations. The creation of these portraits, interiors, landscapes, still lifes, nudes and street scenes were done to "relax and refocus a restless mind. Ingrid Mössinger - the curator of the Kunstsammlungen Museum, in Chemnitz, Germany - came across 'Drawn Blank' during a visit to New York in 2006. Instantly excited about Dylan's work, she contacted the artist's team and was thrilled to learn that Bob Dylan would agree to have his art exhibited in public for the first time.When Dylan had first drawn the works in this series he had intended to create paintings based upon them. Ingrid Mössinger's proposed exhibition encouraged him to now do this using watercolour and gouache. "I was fascinated to learn of Ingrid's interest in my work, and it gave me the impetus to realise the vision I had for these drawings many years ago," Bob Dylan commented. These paintings formed a collection entitled 'The Drawn Blank Series'. Unlike the delicacy of the drawings in 'Drawn Blank' the paintings are expressive and vibrant. Dylan paints several versions of the same image, using different colours and tones which result in a dynamic variety of impressions, feelings and emotions.This choice and skill in applying different colour arrangements to the same original drawing enables Dylan to express his feelings and perceptions of20an idea or view - continually evoking different feelings and reactions, and thereby creating evolving works of art. This technique is intrinsic to Dylan in all aspects of his creative life. As Tobias Rüther (Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper), who credited Dylan with successfully translating his songs into art, commented: "That which he's done for years on the stage - performing new versions of his old songs in order to give a fresh interpretation - he's now continuing on deckle-edged paper."   Prior to the seventeenth century most artists had viewed printmaking (or Graphics as they are also known nowadays) as a preparatory technique, using the medium to create sketches for their final paintings.The Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) was one of the first artists to use printmaking as a form of art in its own right. Although initially a painter, he became devoted to the medium of etching; creating approximately three hundred etchings during his lifetime. His importance and renown within the art world in this context is of such significance that, when the medium was revived during the twentieth century, artists such as Picasso fervently aspired to be as skilled as him in this medium and, during the 1930s went on to create, amongst many fine art graphics, a series of etchings which featured imagery of Rembrandt.The series was entitled 'The Vollard Suite', named after the renowned art dealer and critic Ambroise Vollard=2 0(1866-1939) who commissioned and published it. Vollard was one of the most important art dealers of the early twentieth century, and worked with artists such as Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). Importantly, it was Vollard who pioneered the idea of painter as printer, bringing printmaking back into fashion and establishing it as a reputable art form that artists enjoyed and enthusiastically used. As Vollard himself commented: "...the painters themselves became more and more interested in the new form of expression. Some of them even made complete albums for me..."After the Second World War the centre of printmaking predominantly moved from Europe to America and some artists began to dedicate their entire oeuvres to print, which came to be viewed on the same level as painting and sculpture. Indeed, artists such as Andy Warhol (1928-1987) were committed to the medium - repeating an image in many different colour-ways - just as Bob Dylan has done in his works years later. As part of this tradition, and continuing it into the twenty-first century, a carefully selected collection of Dylan's paintings have been chosen to be published as Signed Limited Edition Graphics to enable collectors and art lovers throughout the world access to Bob Dylan's works of art.This graphics collection entitled 'The Drawn Blank Series' captures the true essence of Dylan's original paintings. In the spirit of Vollard, it is the production of these prints that enables a wider audience to appreciate the skill and imagination not only of Dylan the artist, but also of Dylan the man. Each edition,  is published in a limited number of no more than 295 copies worldwide. All are printed on Hahnemühle Museum Etching or Innova Soft Texture paper, certificated and personally signed by the artist.   A MUCH SOUGHT AFTER WORK FROM A SOLD OUT EXHIBITION.   BOTH A LOVELY ART WORK TO TREASURE AND A HIGHLY COLLECTABLE INVESTMENT. Place a Bid!