Leonard Cohen

$195.00

12 in stock

Only twenty (20) prints of LEONARD COHEN were produced for this 2024 edition. Each print is artist-signed in the lower right, hand-titled in the center, and numbered in the lower left (all beneath the image). The issuance of this work coincides with what would have been Cohen’s 90th birthday (September 21).

The image area is 19″ high x 15″ wide on an untrimmed 22″ x 17″ sheet. Paper, ink, and production specifications, as well as shipping details, are available on our PRINT SPECS page.

Prices will increase for subsequent prints as the edition depletes. Purchase price does not include shipping costs, which are calculated during checkout.

NOTE: These prints will be shipped 4–5 weeks after the initial launch date (September 20).

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This portrait of LEONARD COHEN (1934–2016) by Drew Friedman will be issued in a limited edition of 20 fine art prints on September 20.

Over half a century, Cohen established a near-mythic reputation as an artistic genius and ladies’ man. His work as a singer, songwriter, poet, and novelist explored sex, religion, and conflict; power, romance, and regret. Born in Montreal, where he achieved fame as a poet in the 1950s, Cohen lived in London and on the Greek island of Hydra, before launching his music career in New York in the 1960s. Originally pegged as a folk singer because he strummed an acoustic guitar and sang softly, he quickly transcended classification to achieve iconic status. He scored countless literary and musical achievements over the decades, with many of his songs, including “Suzanne,” “Hallelujah,” and “Dance Me to the End of Love” covered often enough to qualify as standards.

In the mid-1990s, on the verge of marriage to a beautiful actress after the success of a best-selling album, Cohen entered a monastery on a rocky mountaintop above Los Angeles. When he returned home, he found his bank accounts had been bled dry by someone he trusted, and he was forced back onto the road at age 73. He continued to perform sold-out shows for the rest of his life, and was celebrated in films, biographies, and tribute concerts.