Rare works of art by music legend Bob Dylan have gone on sale for a staggering £50,000.
The collection includes paintings from the 1970s.
One of them, called Side Tracks, was created in Los Angeles in 1974 and is estimated to fetch £25,000.
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Train Tracks in Green is valued at £2,000 to £2,500 and Sunflowers and Cityscape are each valued at between £1,000 and £2,000.
Most of the other works, which were painted by Dylan during his travels across America and Europe, carry estimates of £800 to £1,200.
They were purchased by a collector and are described as being excellent condition, as reported by What’s The Jam.
Expert Abigail Molenaar said: “I often get valuation requests for Bob Dylan prints, but it is rare to get the opportunity to bring such an extensive collection to auction.
“The market for Bob Dylan prints is strong and this collection has gone from gallery to the collector’s wall and now to auction, so they are in good condition.
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“Bob Dylan is a global popular culture icon who, like David Bowie, transcends different genres and their work is always collectable for memorabilia.”
Dylan’s most popular prints are those from his Side Tracks series, based on the Train Tracks sketch which first appeared in his Drawn Blank series.
Side Tracks is a running series of more than 300 giclée prints, each featuring the same ‘lTrain Tracks’ image, which is then hand-embellished by Dylan, making each one unique.
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All the prints are individually named after a specific location and date, usually corresponding to a concert Dylan played at some point between 1961 and 2013.
Dylan became the first singer-songwriter to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 and, three years later, held his first comprehensive solo exhibition in the Modern Art Museum Shanghai.
The exhibition attracted more than 100,000 visitors in the first three months.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota, Dylan’s life is captured in the 2024 biographical musical drama film A Complete Unknown.
The collection is being sold by Halls Fine Art in Shrewsbury, Shrops, on Wednesday (9 Jul).
A Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, signed by Dylan, is also in the auction with an estimate of £200 to £300.
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