Dylan demo recording, $39,325, RR Auction

The earliest known demo recording of legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, captured at New York’s famed Gaslight Café in 1961, sold for $39,325 in an online auction held Feb. 21-March 12 by RR Auction in Boston. Also, an original mixed media nude portrait painting from Dylan’s acclaimed “Drawn Blank Series,” titled Cassandra, fetched $79,539; and Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for his song All Along the Watchtower, neatly signed “Bob Dylan, 2013,” finished at $61,599.