Following yesterday's post, Louis Dudek – Leonard Cohen’s Professor & First Publisher, I received an email from Leonard Cohen containing the above sketch, titled My Dear Teacher Louis Dudek, and this explanation:

I traced it from a photograph
shortly after Louis died

graphic for a memorial piece
I was writing for him

Above: Leonard Cohen signing his painting, "Parc Du Portugal."

Below: Book with sixty of Leonard Cohen's works, published by Richard Goodall Gallery Limited in 2007.

Many of Cohen's drawings and paintings can be viewed online at the Goodall Gallery web site on a seven page section, beginning at Leonard Cohen Art - page 1.

The photo and the book were purchased by Dominique BOILE, who also contributed their images.

1. Oil on canvas portrait of Leonard Cohen painted by Patricia Merrien about fifteen years ago
2. French Gold Record award, based on a drawing by Leonard Cohen, for the 2001 Ten New Songs album. Originally presented to Kelley Lyrnch.

Dominique BOILE, who has generously contributed many items from his extensive collection of Leonard Cohen clippings, recordings, and memoribilia to this site, accounts these two pieces among his personal favorites.

 

Leonard Cohen has donated First Snow (shown above), a signed limited edition (#14 of 100) 12x15 inch pigment print to be auctioned off for funds to support the Dharma Primary School in Brighton.

The auction is being held on eBay with a stipulated starting bid of £999.99 and a closing date for bids of Sunday 25th March 2012.

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From the Dharma Primary School Site:

The Dharma Primary School is the only alternative, independent school in the UK to offer an education based on Buddhist values. Open to children aged    3-11 from all religious faiths and cultural backgrounds; the school provides a quality,  academic education combined with Buddhist teachings to support the development of mindfulness, compassion and communal responsibility.

This limited edition Leonard Cohen lithograph came with the Old Ideas "collector's bundle."

Contriubted by Dominique BOILE.

A tweet by InComesTheBlack informs us that

Leonard Cohen, The God, has donated his "At Sleep At Last" art piece to In Comes The Black Dog. [my emphasis; tweeter's words]

Galleries exhibiting Leonard Cohen's art describe "At Sleep At Last" (titled "Asleep At Last" on the gallery sites)  as a 30" x 20" limited edition pigment print with a list price between 4000 and 4500 USD.

Leonard Cohen himself suffered from depression throughout his life until it spontaneously lifted in 1999. Information about his depression and his treatment can be found at Leonard Cohen's List Of Pharmaceuticals Joke & His Not At All Funny Depression.

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From the In Comes The Black Dog site:

In Comes the Black Dog’, inspired by Winston Churchill’s famous description of his own depression, is an art movement changing the face of depression. Artists are coming together from around the world to show depression and mental health is nothing of which to be ashamed of. That, in fact, depression can create something beautiful.

In collaboration with Depression Awareness Week, 22nd – 29th April 2012, the artists are holding an exhibition at the Underdog Gallery, London SE1, showcasing their work and to raise funds for Depression Alliance.

It is time the stereotypes of mental health are swept aside and a new understanding begins, as more and more people come to terms with their own black canine companions.

Together we can change peoples’ beliefs and attitudes towards depression.

“In Comes the Black Dog”, Underdog Gallery, Crucifix Lane, SE1 3JW

27th April – 29th April 2012. Opening Night Friday 27th April with an art auction, starring Emer O’Neill, the CEO of Depression Alliance, plus music and comedy acts.

1. 
   Backup Singers
2. Asleep At Last (labeled only as "From Fifteen Poems" at this site)

These images are from Fifteen Poems, an eShort that features poetry by Leonard Cohen and twenty-four of his drawings.The poems include “Death of a Lady’s Man,” “On Hearing a Name Long Unspoken,” and “The Embrace.” Found at Knopf Doubleday site.

Leonard Cohen and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau often met on the rooftop deck of the Mont real home of their mutual friend, Nancy Southam. This drawing from Book Of Longing by Leonard Cohen commemorates one of those meetings during which Trudeau asked Cohen to read a poem to him and then another and another. It was not long afterward that Cohen's service to Trudeau was as honorary pallbearer.

The words superimposed on the graphic are reproduced below.

He was kind and powerful.
He asked me to read him
a poem. And then he asked
me for another. And another.
This was on the roof of
Nancy’s house, which she
called The Firestation.
Nancy gave us lunch, and
then I read some more. Later
many sorrows befell them
both.

Well, you know, just as play is deadly serious for children, so doodles are deadly serious for me. 

Quote and sketch, Only One Thing by Leonard Cohen (2007), from Leonard Cohen by Robert Enright (Border Crossings, Issue No 194, Dec. 2007)

the road is too long
the sky is too vast
the wandering heart
is homeless at last

While this poem is an entry in the Book Of Longing, the verse and art were originally created by Leonard Cohen for those attending Hydra 2002 - Leonard Cohen Experience.  The graphic was found at LeonardCohenFiles.