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Bob Dylan to show artwork

Pastel portraits to show for the first time at London’s National Portrait Gallery next month

8/5/2013
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    An undated handout photo, provided to the media on Friday, April 24, 2009, shows musician Bob Dylan. Dylan will play at the O2 Arena in London, U.K., on April 25. Source: Sony Music via Bloomberg News EDITOR'S NOTE: NO SALES

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    • 'Woman in Red Lion Pub', 2007, by Bob Dylan.
    'Woman in Red Lion Pub', 2007, by Bob Dylan.

    New pastel portraits by American singer Bob Dylan will go on show for the first time at London’s National Portrait Gallery next month, the gallery said on Monday.

    The 12 new works in the “Bob Dylan Face Value” exhibition in September represent the latest portrait studies from the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer who has sketched and drawn since childhood, but only began exhibiting six years ago.

    The portraits represent characters, with an amalgamation of features Dylan has collected from life, memory, and his imagination and fashioned into people, some real and some fictitious.