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Bob Dylan
Two art reference books given to Suze Rotolo by Bob Dylan on her twentieth birthday, November 20th, 1963, both books also inscribed by Dylan, one: Painting In Italy From The Origins To The Thirteenth Century, New York: Skira, 1959, the front free end paper inscribed on the reverse in Bob Dylan's hand in black ballpoint pen with a poem about Suze's birthday, the 29 lines reading: I pictured visions In the midst of dreams 'f a little girl chugging an puffin Her way across the kitchen With one hand graspin A colour crayon And the other clingin titely t a penny Singin t herself "I'm twenny I'm twenny " With the voice sounds f a small child Complete with runny nose an snorts Wide eyed with a playground grin Bitin her tongue with concentration Gettin so sleepy Finally exhausted she dropped her tools An stretched An climbed slowly t her feet An yawned With curled mouth an bowed face An teasinly I heard her say In a shy whisper "Ok I'm all done bein twenny I wanna play" An I went with her because I loved her An I asked myself when I woke up Who was this strange sandbox birthday girl? That has charged thru my dreams? An it was you Moohead An it will always be you....., the front end paper inscribed in Rotolo's hand in black ink with her initials and the date 20/11/63, large 4to. colour plates, original boards and illustrated wrappers; and RUSSOLI, Franco Modigliani, New York: Harry N. Abrams, front free end paper inscribed by Dylan on on one side in black ink ....As Long As there is Always Me.. and intialled and dated by Suze on the other, large 4to. colour plates, original boards, illustrated wrappers and slip case (2)

Provenance

The Personal Archives of Suze Rotolo.

Literature

DYLAN, Bob Chronicles - Volume 1 op.cit.

Lot Essay

Bob Dylan acknowledges Suze as the primary influence in his art education. He wrote: ...Suze and I were spending more and more time together, and I began to broaden my horizons, see a lot of what her world was like...I went with her to where the artists and painters hung out...A new world of art was opening up my mind. Sometimes early in the day we'd go uptown to the city museums, see giant oil-painted canvases by artists like Valázqez, Goya, Delacroix, Rubens, El Greco. Also twentieth-century stuff - Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky, Rouault, Bonnard....

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