Bob Dylan began taking painting lessons in 1974 from New York painter Norman Raeben.
The experience would have marked him so much that it precipitated his divorce with his first wife Sara, mother of his four children.
“It changed my perception of life so much that my own wife no longer understood me
,” he said several years later.
As early as 1968, however, his work as a painter illustrated the cover of The Band's masterpiece,
Music From The Big Pink
, two years before that of his own album, the aptly named but unloved
Self Portrait
, and before that of
Planet waves
, in 1974. Certified genius of the rock scene, the Nobel Prize for Literature has often been exhibited in his country, via retrospectives of his work as a painter and sculptor.
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In France, for his first exhibition, the artist chose the Château La Coste, in Aix-en-Provence.
Since Monday, May 9, there has been a selection of paintings based on drawings made on tour between 1989 and 1991 and brought together under…
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