Bob Dylan, during a concert on June 30, 2012 in Paddock Wood, England Ki Price (R)
A new 2021 recording of Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind sold for £1.48 million ($1.76 million) at Christie’s auction house in London this Thursday, to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the legendary song. It is Dylan’s first studio recording since 1962 of the song that was originally included on his second album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan and became one of the symbols of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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In 2021, the singer-songwriter returned to the studio to record a new version on vinyl with multi-Grammy and Oscar-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 ‘Blowin’ in the Wind,’ Bob Dylan offers a new recording of his song; one that is deeply relevant to our times and has impacted decades of the artist’s life and experience.” Christie’s were “thrilled” to offer this “unique recording,” according to one of the bidder’s specialists, Peter Klarnet , who called the song “one of the most important of the last century”.
In the same auction, a Stradivarius-Hellier violin made in 1679 by the famous luthier Antonio Stradivari remained without a buyer. The instrument features special marquetry that outlines its silhouette, a fact that, according to Christie’s specialist Florian Leonhard, makes it “one of only 11 decorated and inlaid violins” by the Cremona master. “Dating from the early days of Stradivarius, it was made in 1679 with already very mature design features such as its large model and its embroidery with bold elements and a wide flat bow,” he told Efe.
Also offered to the highest bidder was the sculpture Reclining Magdalena by Antonio Canova and other works by great artists such as the Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. Ä., the Flemish painter Anton Van Dyck and the Englishman William Turner, known as the “painter of light”. .
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