Bicycles American racer Lance Armstrong, designed by famous contemporary artists, will be sold at charity auction

Unusual bikes, designed for the famous American racer Lance Armstrong (Lance Armstrong) leading contemporary artists, including Damien Hurst (Damien Hirst), Feira Shepard (Shepard Fairey) and Esitomo Nara (Yoshitomo Nara), will be sold at a charity auction.

Trades, which will house Sotheby's, held in New York on October 2 - in this day in 1996, Lance Armstrong has learned that the sick with cancer. A famous athlete was able to defeat this deadly disease and to become a winner of seven Tour de France. In order to help other people suffering from cancer, he created his own fund Livestrong, in which proceeds will be listed in the auction funds. According to preliminary estimates, this amount should be at least four million dollars.

Total sales will be billed for six cycles, created by Trek Bicycle Corp. Of their decoration in addition to those already mentioned above, the authors employed the famous designer Marc Newson (Marc Newson), graffitist Kenny Scharf (Kenny Scharf) and the New York street artist KEWS. At one of the bike, which is adorned with butterflies Damien Hurst, Lance Armstrong will participate in the finals of the Tour de France on 26 July at the Elysee fields.

And on the July 28, all six art-bike can be seen at charity Stages in the Paris Exhibition Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin, which Livestrong holds jointly with Nike . For exposure and subsequent sale of 21 famous artists donated work of Richard Prince (Richard Prince), Ed Rusha (Ed Ruscha), Vul, Christopher (Christopher Wool), Andreas Gurskii (Andreas Gursky), and others. The total cost for the works is estimated at three million dollars. The proceeds also will be on Lance Armstrong's charitable foundation.

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Sources: bloomberg.com , stages09.com , artinvestment.ru