{"product_id":"bob-dylan-mr-tambourine-man","title":"Mr Tambourine Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eHand-signed Lithograph on paper limited edition by Bob Dylan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComposed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst album release: \u003cem\u003eBringing It All Back Home\u003c\/em\u003e, 1965\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\u003eand \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\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis artwork is also available in a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/products\/bob-dylan-mondo-scripto-2026-framed-set-of-six\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eframed set\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover more about \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/mondo-scripto-2026\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMondo Scripto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e or shop Dylan’s art \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/collections\/bob-dylan\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bob Dylan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66076539519325,"sku":"BDY-SLE-POR-41641","price":2450.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/1906\/6461\/files\/BDYMrTambourineMan_0.jpg?v=1790770278","url":"https:\/\/www.castlefineart.com\/products\/bob-dylan-mr-tambourine-man","provider":"Castle Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}