Actor, musician, icon of style, artist, designer, collector of art objects - all this about David Bowie. Throughout his life he was in constant search of himself, his incredible passion for art and everything connected with it, created a halo of mystery around Bowie's personality.
The fact that Bowie was a passionate collector and artist, knew a very narrow circle of friends, including connoisseurs of contemporary art. Therefore, when it became known that the art collection was put up for auction, it immediately aroused excitement. Employees of the auction house Sotheby's it was decided to divide the collection into three parts and submit November 10 and 11 for auction.
Part of the collection of David Bowie went under the hammer for $ 30 million on the first day!
On the first day of trading, according to The Guardian, a significant portion of the collection was sold and an amount of $ 30 million was received. The auction also featured paintings by contemporary artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and British Damien Hirst, with whom Bowie created a work called "Beautiful, Hallo, Space-boy Painting."
The auction house Sotheby's offered an incredible palette of art objects from the collection: photographs, drawings and sketches, engravings, sculptural compositions.
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Recall that in 2013, during the life of David Bowie, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert hosted an exhibition of the musician's works. According to BBC News, the exhibition called David Bowie Is was one of the most visited in Britain. In the future, the retrospective was presented at eight museum venues around the world and showed the other side of the musician's work: sketches of costumes, photographs and paintings, manuscripts and art sketches.
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