TOP TEN DAVID BOWIE COLLECTOR

Sotheby’s – London Auction – Bowie Collector IPart –  Jean-Michel Basquiat Estimate: £2.5-3.5million – Sold for: £7,093,000

1

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Air Power, 1984
Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
Estimate: £2.5-3.5million
Sold for: £7,093,000
Buyer: Private Collector
Bowie played the role of Andy Warhol in the 1996 film Basquiat

2

Frank Auerbach

Head of Gerda Boehm, 1965
Oil on board
Estimate: £300,000-500,000
Sold for: £3,789,000 (RECORD)
Buyer: Private Collector
“My God, yeah! I want to sound

3

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled, 1984
Acrylic, spraypaint and paper collage on canvas
Estimate: £500,000-700,000
Sold for: £7,093,000
Buyer: Private Collector
“His work relates to rock in ways that very few other visual artists get near”, David Bowie, Modern Painters, 1996.

4
Peter Lanyon
Witness, 1961
Oil on canvas
Estimate: £250,000-350,000
Sold for: £797,000 (RECORD)
Buyer: Private Collector
There are eight works by Lanyon in the sale, three of which, including Witness, were loaned to the 2010 Tate St Ives retrospective.

5

Damien Hirst with David Bowie
Beautiful, hallo, space-boy painting, 1995
Household gloss on canvas
Estimate: £250,000-350,000
Sold for: £785,000
Buyer: Anonymous
David Bowie went to Hirst’s studio to collaborate on this work in 1995, the same year that Hirst won the Turner Prize.

6

Damien Hirst
Beautiful, shattering, slashing, violent, pinky, hacking, sphincter painting, 1995
Household gloss on canvas
Estimate: £250,000-350,000
Sold for: £755,000
Buyer: US Private
Bowie wrote that Hirst’s spin paintings are “unconcerned with the savageness of life. It’s optimistic, it’s here and it’s now” (Modern Painters, 1996).

7

Patrick Caulfield
Foyer, 1973
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate: £400,000-600,000
Sold for: £665,000 (RECORD)
Buyer: Private Collector
David Bowie generously loaned this to the Tate Britain exhibition in 2013.

8

Henry Moore
Family Group, 1944
Bronze
Estimate: £250,000-350,000
Sold for: £581,000
Buyer: European Private Collector
David Bowie enthusiastically collected works by British sculptors who were exhibited at the 1952 Venice Biennale including Henry Moore and Kenneth Armitage.

9

Marcel Duchamp
With Hidden Noise (Un Bruit Secret), 1964
Assisted Readymade
Estimate: £180,000-250,000
Sold for: £557,000
Buyer: Anonymous
“I quite like being misunderstood. I was happy to be the Marcel Duchamp of Rock” (David Bowie).

10

Harold Gilman
Interior (Mrs Mounter), 1917
Oil on canvas
Estimate: £150,000-250,000
Sold for: 485,000 (RECORD)
Buyer: Private Collector
When Bowie purchased this work in 1994 he paid a record price at that time. Once again, a new record for the artist was set this evening.

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