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About 60 Dylan items — including photos, music sheets, his
guitar, pencil drawings and an oil painting composed by the
Nobel Prize for literature winner — were sold on Saturday in
Nashville, Tennessee, through Julien’s Auctions.
The items generated nearly $1.5 million in sales overall through
in-person and online bidding, the auction house said. Julien's
said 50 of the items, including the lyrics that received the
highest sale price, came from the personal collection of late
music journalist Al Aronowitz.
The typewritten lyrics, which covered three drafts of the 1965
song, were written on two sheets of yellow paper, with Dylan’s
annotation on the third draft.
Dylan wrote the original draft lyrics in the journalist's New
Jersey home, according to Julien’s, citing a 1973 newspaper
article by Aronowitz.
Dylan sat “with my portable typewriter at my white formica
breakfast bar in a swirl of chain-lit cigaret smoke, his bony,
long-nailed fingers tapping the words out” on copy paper,
Aronowitz was quoted as writing.
The third draft, while close to the final version, still had
significant variations from the final lyrics, the auction house
said on its website.
The song appeared as the lead track on the acoustic side of his
1965 “Bringing It All Back Home” album and was the first Dylan
composition to reach No. 1 in the United States and the United
Kingdom, Julien’s said.
Other high-selling items Saturday included a 1968 Dylan-signed
oil-on-canvas painting for $260,000 and a custom 1983 Fender
guitar that he owned and played for $225,000.
Dylan, now 83, is garnering attention with last month's release
of the movie “A Complete Unknown," which focuses on his rise to
stardom in the early 1960s. Dylan is played by Timothée Chalamet,
who has worked for several years on the role, which involves
singing and playing guitar.
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