Rare works of art by music legend Bob Dylan have sold for £30,000.
But it was still less than the £50,000 they were expected to fetch.
The collection included paintings from the 1970s.
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The star lot called Side Tracks, created in Los Angeles in 1974, went for £20,000 to a Spanish buyer.
It had been estimated to fetch £25,000.
‘Train Tracks in Green’ and ‘Sunflowers’, both from Dylan’s ‘The Drawn Blank Series’, sold for £2,200 and £1,000 respectively.
While ‘Favela Villa Broncos’, from ‘The Brazil Series’, found a buyer at £950.
Train Tracks in Green was valued at £2,500, and Sunflowers was valued at between £1,000 and £2,000.
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Other items from the collection were £900 each for ‘House on Union Street’ and ‘Bicycle’, both from ‘The Drawn Blank Series’.
A framed Stratocaster electric guitar, bearing Dylan’s ink signature to the scratch plate, with accompanying ‘Star Entertainment certificate’, sold for £310.
More than half of the 20 lots on offer from the collection were sold, with two going to Norway and the majority being sold to bidders in the saleroom, as reported by What’s The Jam.
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Expert Abigail Molenaar, of auctioneers Halls Fine Art, in Shrewsbury, Shrops, said: “The auction highlighted the strong international market for Bob Dylan prints, especially when they have good provenance, are in good condition and ready to hang.
“Bob Dylan is a global popular culture icon who transcends different genres, and his work is always collectable.
“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.
“Bob Dylan is a global popular culture icon who, like David Bowie, transcends different genres and their work is always collectable for memorabilia.”
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.
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.
