A new Bob Dylan recording of 'Blowin' in the Wind', auctioned for 1.7 million euros

Bob Dylan, during a concert on June 30, 2012 at Paddock Wood, in England. Ki Price (REUTERS)

A new 2021 recording of Bob Dylan's

was sold this Thursday for 1.48 million pounds (1.76 million dollars, 1.73 million euros) at Christie's auction house in London, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the iconic song.

It's Dylan's first studio recording since 1962 of the song, which originally came from his second album,

, and became one of the symbols of the 1960s civil rights movement.

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In 2021 the singer-songwriter went back into the studio to record a new version on vinyl with multi-Grammy and Oscar award-winning producer and songwriter Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett III, using his patented technology for the first time.

“60 years after he wrote and recorded

, Bob Dylan offers a new recording of his song;

one that is profoundly relevant to our times and has played out over decades of the artist's life and experience."

From Christie's, they were "excited" to be able to offer this "unique recording", according to one of the bidding house specialists, Peter Klarnet, who defined the song as "one of the most important of the last century".

In the same auction, a Stradivarius

violin made in 1679 by the famous luthier Antonio Stradivari was left without a buyer.

The instrument is distinguished by particular inlays that outline its silhouette, a fact that makes it "one of only 11 ornate and inlaid violins" by the Cremona master, according to Christie's specialist Florian Leonhard.

"It comes from the initial period of Stradivari and was made in 1679 with already very mature design characteristics, such as its large model and its embroidery with bold elements and a flat, wide bow," he told Efe.

Also offered to the highest bidder was the sculpture

by Antonio Canova and other works by great artists such as the Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder, the Flemish painter Anton Van Dyck and the Englishman William Turner, known as “the painter of light”.