Unprecedented Demand Leads to Limited Edition Bob Dylan Series

A series of striking paintings from cultural icon Bob Dylan have been released as signed limited edition graphics by the UK’s leading fine art publisher, Washington Green.

Following unprecedented demand for 'The Drawn Blank Series' – which was first translated into limited edition graphics in 2008 – Washington Green has published six of the most iconic images from the collection in never before seen colourways. Released in an edition of 295, each piece is individually hand signed by the artist, and will be available to buy at London’s five Castle Fine Art galleries – located at South Molton Street, St, Christopher’s Place, Covent Garden, The Royal Exchange and Canary Wharf – from Friday 8th April.

As one of contemporary culture’s most influential and ground-breaking artists, Dylan, now 74, continues to reinvent and inspire. His contribution to music is well documented, having released 36 studio albums, wining 11 Grammy Awards and selling in excess of 125 million records worldwide.

In recent years, his work as a visual artist has furthered his popularity and acclaim. Dylan dates the origins of his work as a visual artist to the early 1960s – drawing throughout his music career to "relax and refocus a restless mind".

Whilst travelling on tour between 1989 and 1992, Dylan created a collection of drawings featuring portraits, interiors, landscapes, nudes and street scenes that were published in a book entitled 'Drawn Blank' in 1994.

When Ingrid Mössinger, the curator of the Kunstsammlungen Museum in in Chemnitz, Germany, came across the works over ten years later in 2006, she urged Dylan to host his first major museum exhibition.

During an eight month period in 2007, Dylan reworked the original drawings to create a series of 320 expressive and vibrant watercolour and gouache paintings. Several versions of each image were created by Dylan in different colours and tones, resulting in a dynamic variety of impressions, feelings and emotions. These paintings formed a collection entitled 'The Drawn Blank Series' – the subsequent exhibition of the works at the Kunstsammlungen Museum in 2007 were met with widespread critical acclaim.

The six new signed limited edition graphics have been produced in an edition size of 295 and cost £1,750.00 each. They will be available to buy from London’s five Castle Fine Art galleries from Friday 8th April 2016.