{"product_id":"bob-dylan-lay-lady-lay","title":"Lay Lady Lay","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand-signed Lithograph on paper limited edition by Bob Dylan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecorded for 1969’s Nashville Skyline with newly deepened, smoother vocals, ‘Lay, Lady, Lay’ is among Dylan’s most tender ballads. The central image of the song is the alliterative ‘big brass bed’ – drawn readily from blues tradition and country diction. Dylan’s hand-coloured illustration lingers precisely on this evocative image of an ornate brass bed and plush rose curtains, with the song’s titular figure caught mid-repose. Here, colour brings the warmth and affection that Dylan’s own lyrics suggest, in a scene that captures the song’s atmosphere of unhurried intimacy and its narrator’s plea: ‘Stay, lady, stay, stay with your man a while’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst album release: \u003cem\u003eNashville Skyline\u003c\/em\u003e, 1969\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMondo Scripto\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow, 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 \u003cem\u003eDrawn Blank\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePoint Blank\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDylan’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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis artwork is also available in a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/products\/bob-dylan-mondo-scripto-2026-framed-set-of-six\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eframed set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/mondo-scripto-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMondo Scripto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e or shop Dylan’s art \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/bob-dylan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bob Dylan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66076537061725,"sku":"BDY-SLE-POR-41639","price":2450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/1906\/6461\/files\/BDYLayLadyLay_0.jpg?v=1790770165","url":"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/products\/bob-dylan-lay-lady-lay","provider":"Castle Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}