Bob Dylan: Rare artwork fetches $200,000

A rare painting created by Bob Dylan (83) over 50 years ago has been auctioned for $196,156 (around 180,300 euros). The music legend’s work of art, created around 1968, is described on the auction house’s website as a “colorful and energetic abstract composition with the large central outline of a bull.” The canvas features various shapes and patterns as well as musical notes, animals and the red outline of a man with a hat, possibly “a kind of self-portrait.”

According to the auction house, Bob Dylan offered the painting to Woodstock native Sandy LePanto in exchange for a horoscope. The painting is said to have been in her family’s possession the entire time and was recently rediscovered in the estate of her former husband Anthony Lepanto, it is said.

Bob Dylan’s artwork adorned album covers

Bob Dylan has long been known for his artwork. One of his paintings, for example, adorned the cover of The Band’s debut album “Music from Big Pink” from 1968. This summer, the 83-year-old is also back on the road as a musician, appearing as part of the “Outlaw Music Festival Tour” among other things.

In addition, Bob Dylan will soon be honored with his own biopic. Timothée Chalamet (28) will play the singer in the film “A Complete Unknown” by director James Mangold (60). The actor is apparently supposed to play the young Bob Dylan in the film. At the beginning of the 1960s, he moved to New York City with virtually no money but plenty of ambition and quickly blossomed into a beacon of hope for folk music.

Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century. In 2016, the US star was the first musician to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature “for his poetic creations in the great American song tradition”. In addition to “Blowin’ In The Wind”, his hits include songs such as “Knockin’ On Heavens Door”, “All Along the Watchtower” and “Like A Rolling Stone”.