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Framed: 40.5 x 29.5 in | 102.87 x 74.93 cm
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Hand-signed Lithograph on paper limited edition by Bob Dylan.
Composed in 1964 while on the road between New Orleans’ Mardi Gras and his return to New York, and indebted, by his own account, to Federico Fellini's 1954 classic La Strada, 'Mr. Tambourine Man' announced Dylan’s shift as a songwriter, beyond the limits of activism and protest folk, into a language of pure image. Tom Piazza described the song as freeing Dylan into ‘a creative place beyond ideology’. Dylan's hand-coloured illustration answers the song's hushed, sleepless small hours with an empty cobbled lane under a saturated, inky blue sky, its terraced houses rendered in playful ochre, rose and green hues. This is a dreamscape stripped of figures, in which Dylan’s use of colour transforms line into pure light.
First album release: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965
Mondo Scripto, first exhibited at Halcyon Gallery in 2018, expanded that practice into a sustained and systematic project, as Dylan handwrote the lyrics to many of his best-loved songs and paired them with graphite drawings, weaving together decades of familiar songwriting with his personal artistic imagination. Dylan has returned to this format, injecting colour into several of his illustrations, extending Mondo Scripto’s dialogue between text and image into artworks altogether more immediate and instinctive.
Now, in a new collection of six hand-coloured illustrations, issued as a series of lithographic works, Dylan returns to some of his most celebrated and lyrically complex songs, revisiting them in colour, while working in the same vein as his Drawn Blank and Point Blank series. Selected from a decade of Dylan’s writing, 1964 to 1974, these six works trace an arc through some of the most consequential and formative years of his career.
Dylan’s move into colour does much to advance his earlier graphite drawings, bringing new emotional registers, insights and layers to the songs, decades after their initial conception.
This artwork is also available in a framed set.
Discover more about Mondo Scripto or shop Dylan’s art here.
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Mr Tambourine Man
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Mondo Scripto 2026
Selected from a decade of Dylan’s writing, 1964 to 1974, these six works trace an arc through some of the most consequential and formative years of his career: from the deliberate, Civil-Rights-era anthem of ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’, through the surreal, whimsical imagery of ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ and the electric ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, which served to redefine the landscape of popular music. The collection continues to move through the development of Dylan’s career, via the near-apocalyptic parable ‘All Along The Watchtower’, the warm, country-inspired tenderness of ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’, and finally, with his parental blessing and ballad ‘Forever Young’. Together, these six songs and illustrations offer fresh insights and a profoundly representative cross-section of Dylan’s writing and some of its universal themes, including protest, romance, lament and fantasy.
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Bob Dylan
As one of the most influential artists of all time, Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records. His contribution to worldwide culture has been honoured with many awards. These include an Academy Award for his song 'Things Have Changed', along with 10 Grammy Awards and a Special Citation Pulitzer Prize for his 'profound impact on popular music and American culture'. Further accolades include France's prestigious appointment of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, a Kennedy Center Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Nobel Prize in Literature for 'having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'.
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