The National Portrait Gallery in London is to host the
first UK exhibition of portraits by US singer Bob Dylan.
A series of 12
pastel works, a mix of real and fictitious characters, will be displayed in the
museum from September.
The singer, 72,
who has drawn and sketched since childhood, has only exhibited his art publicly
for the past several years.
Art historian John
Elderfield, said the works were "products of the same extraordinary,
inventive imagination".
The images from
Bob Dylan: Face Value have not been shown anywhere before.
The director of
the National Portrait Gallery, Sandy Nairne, added: "Bob Dylan is one of
the most influential cultural figures of our time. He has always created a
highly visual world either with his words or music, or in paints and
pastels."
In 2008, The
Halcyon Gallery in London featured Dylan's drawings and sketches from periods
on the road between 1989 and 1992.
In June, the
veteran singer was nominated for France's top distinction, the Legion
d'Honneur.
He was also
made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Source: BBC
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