16.75" x 16.75" image size, 22.5” w x 26.5” h overall, printed on the museum-quality 100lb. Quintessence dull cover (acid-free) paper stock. 200 of these prints were originally done to be signed by the artist (i.e., printed on high-quality paper stock), but they were never signed and so they're being sold simply as high-quality prints, printed as part of the original 1990 Record Art Collection series, published by Record Art/Musicom, NY, NY. There were a total of 9800 prints of this image done for the publisher.
Shipped unmatted/unframed
In Mr. Dylan's own words - "The way it turned out, the album became a concept record with a title that could be taken a ton of ways. Staring at the blank canvas for a while encouraged me to blindfoldedly make a picture that would paste all the songs together between the sleeves. It didn't take a whole lot of strokes to complete the face.
Art lovers claimed it was primitive and maybe it was if not having any formal art school training makes it so. My painting style - which was under-developed at the time - had more to do with allowing my eye instead of my mind to regulate my senses. This is clearly not that. It is more like 'which came first - the title or the testimony?'.
In some ways, probably the title. It wasn't my purpose to paint my own picture anyway. Pop Art was coming into focus but it was coming out of a more traditional approach that had been discarded, so my composition couldn't be called that. It was more like a rough sketch acrylicly done. Water color might have had more depth."
Many Dylan fans found the 1970 record to be confusing in its composition, including covers of songs by Paul Simon and Gordon Lightfoot (his competition at the time?). Personally, I love the image - I mean, how many rock stars of his stature would have the guts to create their own self-portrait as a cover of a record release ("what, and ruin my image - are you joking?!")...
