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A collection of David Bowie auctioned

Around 350 objects from the collection of musician will be exhibited in the three auctions at Sotheby's in London on November 10-11 2016

David Bowie, who passed away in January of this year at the age of 69 years, was widely known for his passion for collecting. Auction house Sotheby's will hold two auctions of contemporary art and a separate auction devoted to Italian postmodern design. Now top-лоты the collection of Bowie exhibited in the same exhibition in new-Йорке. Then they will travel to Hong Kong, and in the end will be presented in London and will be bidding. The most modest estimate of the collection is £10-15 million ($13–$19.5 million).

Among the top-лотов auctions from the collection of David Bowie — work of Jean-Мишеля Basquiat "Air Power" ("Power air"), with an estimate of $3.3 to $4.6 million, as well as paintings of Frank Auerbach's "Head of Gerda Boehm" in 1965. Bowie mentions in a 1998 interview about how different the impression made on him this picture Auerbach. One day she could increase the alarm, and the other — to inspire his creativity: "I want to sound like it looks". Among the top-лотов you can also mention the joint work of Bowie and his friend Damien Hirst. This work is from a series of so-called "paintings-вращений" — "Beautiful, hallo, space-boy painting" in 1995.

David Bowie was deeply immersed in the world of art (especially contemporary British art) — as an actor, critic, philanthropist, publisher and editor. He was a member of the editorial Board of the journal Modern Painter ("Modern artist"), for which he interviewed Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin. In the biographic film Julian Schnabel, 1996 "Basquiat," played the role of Andy Warhol.

Sources: reuters.com, artnet.com, artinvestment.ru


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