Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Damien Hirst, works of other British artists and Italian furniture designs, belonging to the private collection of singer David Bowie, can be seen from this Wednesday in London.
auction house Sotheby’s allows the public to have a look until 9 August at art pieces he bought the king of “glam rock”, as an appetizer to the bid they have christened #BowieCollector and held on 10 and 11 November.
After a stint in the British capital this selection of 30 works will tread Los Angeles and New York in September, and Hong Kong in October.
in autumn, company will release first 400 objects of art, the musician died in his house and which is expected to raise 10 million pounds (13.1 million dollars).
Sotheby’s specialist, Tom Eddison, said today that “Bowie bought quality things” and that both the sample and the auction, “have a passion and a chapter of his life that hardly anyone knew.”
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