Bob Dylan Sells Unique Version Of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ For $2.6 million

A unique one-of-a-form edition of the Bob Dylan basic ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’ has offered for above $2.6 million at auction. As Pitchfork reviews, the track was bought at London’s Christie’s auction household, likely for £1,482,000 (or close to $2.6 million AUD).

In Could, it was claimed that Dylan was established to history a new version of his 1962 music for Ionic Authentic, a new analogue audio format made by longtime collaborator T Bone Burnett. The sale was approximated to bring in between £600,000-1,000,000.

Bob Dylan – ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’

“Sixty many years following Bob 1st wrote and recorded ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, he is providing us a new recording of his music,” Burnett reported at the time. “One that is both deeply pertinent for our moments and resonant with many years of the artist’s lifestyle and knowledge.

“We’re grateful to Christie’s for their perception in the ‘Ionic Original’ and for presenting Bob’s masterful recording to the planet in a exceptional and meaningful way.” The new Ionic Authentic technology is introduced in the kind of one-off aluminium discs, showcasing a lacquer portray that usually takes the form of a “spiral etched into it by music”.

“Marshall McLuhan mentioned that a medium surrounds a preceding medium and turns the former medium into an artwork form,” Burnett reported in a statement following the sale. “As movie did with novels, as television did with film, as the web has carried out with television, and as electronic has carried out with analogue.

“With Bob Dylan’s new variation of ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’, our first Ionic First archival analogue disc, we have entered and aim to assist acquire a audio space in the great arts market place,” he included. “I belief and hope it will mean as a great deal to whomever acquired it now at Christie’s Outstanding Sale as it does to all of us who created it, and that they will contemplate it and care for it as a painting or any other singular function of art.”

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