Bob Dylan
DREAMGIRLS , 2008
Mixed media - watercolour, gouache
Original painting from the Drawn Blank Series
Provenance: Halcyon Gallery
Original painting from the Drawn Blank Series
Provenance: Halcyon Gallery
20 x 16 in
60 x 40 cm
60 x 40 cm
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'Dreamgirls' is an interesting painting as there appears to be a strong allusion in it to one of Dylan's greatest songs, 'Visions of Johanna': 'And the all-night girls they whisper...
'Dreamgirls' is an interesting painting as there appears to be a strong allusion in it to one of Dylan's greatest songs, 'Visions of Johanna':
'And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if its him or them it's insane.......
But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the moustache say "JeezeI can't find my knees"
'And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if its him or them it's insane.......
But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the moustache say "JeezeI can't find my knees"