21/10/2026
Bob Dylan | Mondo Scripto 2026 | Castle Fine Art
In a new Mondo Scripto 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 Drawn Blank and Point Blank series. Dylan'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.
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: from the deliberate, Civil-Rights-era anthem of 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', through the surreal, whimsical imagery of 'Mr. Tambourine Man' and the electric 'Like a Rolling Stone', which served to redefine the landscape of popular music.
The collection continues to move through the development of Dylan's career, via the near-apocalyptic parable 'All Along The Watchtower', the warm, country-inspired tenderness of 'Lay, Lady, Lay', and finally, with his parental blessing and ballad 'Forever Young'. Together, these six songs and illustrations offer fresh insights and a profoundly representative cross-section of Dylan's writing and some of its universal themes, including protest, romance, lament and fantasy.
