Leonard Cohen Drawn to Words Cat. raisonne of drawings

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Leonard Cohen "Drawn To Words" Visual works from 40 yearsA world premiere exhibition catalog as a part of Luminato Festival June 2007.LEONARD COHENDrawn To Wordsworks on paper Review of the Show Drawn to Words features more than 30 pigment prints of drawings and sketches selected from Mr. Leonard Cohen’s extensive private archive stretching back over 40 years. Images from Drawn to Words will include portraits, nudes, objects and landscapes, many of which are annotated with Cohen’s personal notes, observations and musings. Some feature recognizable characters from his songs, while others reflect his changing moods through revealing self-portraits. Drawings that capture views from his Montreal apartment, alongside pictures drawn during his five-year seclusion (1996-2001) as a Zen Buddhist Monk at Mount Baldy Zen Center are included in the collection. Mr. Cohen has kept journals and sketchbooks since the mid 1960’s. As his music career developed, he continued to sketch and draw at every available opportunity and his visual work shares many of the same qualities and themes found in his music and poetry - the light and shade of human emotion, dark humor, social commentary, sexuality and politics. At least one of Mr. Cohen’s original journals will be on display during the exhibition. Throughout his career, Mr. Cohen’s art read more

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