The music was not the only art in which David Bowie was interested. The British singer, who took a technical course in art and design, always made sure to closely monitor the way their work was presented visually, when it came to the stage props, the album art and up to video clips.
Bowie who died in January this year was himself a painter, but particularly liked to buy works of artists his contemporaries. His collection, which will be auctioned by Sotheby’s in November, is particularly rich in British art of the beginning and middle of the twentieth century and it contained names like Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, Frank Auerbach, Stanley Spencer and Patrick Caulfield. Before the auction, which will last three days there will be an exhibition held by Sotheby’s in London for ten days after a touring exhibition of the most important parts through the cities of Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong.
in addition to paintings by British artists, the collection also includes drawings, photographs, sculptures, contemporary pieces of African art and art considered “outsider” – works by artists outside the world of conventional art – as the Gugging Group, hospital patients psychiatric of Gugging in Vienna, who became known for the quality of artwork developed as therapy.
it will be auctioned also the framework Air Power , a painting with artist graffiti American Jean-Michel Basquiat, that alone should be worth, according to Sotheby’s, 3 million euros. One of Sothebys spokesperson relates to Reuters news agency, it is expected that the collection collects about 9 million.
David Bowie buy art “obsessively, like an addiction,” as he confessed the artist at times, and made it discreetly, through a personal contact with the artists themselves. One example is the seven monochrome paintings by John Virtue, which have been surprised one day with a Bowie called to ask if he could visit his studio.
In 1998 he was invited to join the editorial committee newspaper Modern Painters and contacted with names like Jeff Koons, Hirst and Tracey Emin. Bowie was several times with Andy Warhol and played the role in the autobiographical film about Basquiat.
In addition, participated in a farce to the world of the art world, the celebration of talent and tragic life of Nat Tate. Bowie was the host of a big party in Manhattan to launch the biography of the artist who had committed suicide, where almost no one admitted that he had never heard of it, which was perfectly natural, since it was a fictional character invented by the writer William Boyd for romance Nat Tate: An American Artist 1928-1960 .
The administrator of Sotheby’s Europe, Oliver Barker, says Bowie is a creator as great as your collection. “Eclectic, spontaneous, gentle: The collection of David Bowie offers a unique insight into the world of one of the great creative minds of the twentieth century,” he said in a statement
If Bowie has always been an avowed enthusiast. art, only now know the size of this passion. Reportedly, once he came across one of the sculptural and detailed paintings of Frank Auerbach that made him exclaim, “My God, yeah! I want to sound like that looks “like I wanted to sound like this … The singer lent anonymously, one of the most important works of the painter, the portrait of his cousin Gerda, the major retrospective of his life made in 2001 . “David liked to share the work he had in his possession,” a Bowie representative to the British newspaper the Guardian .
the family of the singer, who will put collection for sale for lack of space to save, will save some parts with particular personal meaning, but says that “it is time others can enjoy and purchase art and objects he admired.”
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