Sotheby’s exhibits from this Tuesday in New York the most representative pieces of art collection private of the deceased David Bowie, the pictorial universe that inspired the own work of the "king of glam rock", and that is to auction in London on 10 and 11 November.
The bid "Bowie Collector", composed by 380 pieces that include works by Damien Hirst, Jean Michel Basquiat and Frank Auerbach, hopes to raise between 10 and 15 million euros (between 11 and 17 million dollars), although it is so recent the death of the author of "Life On Mars" that experts predict a figure even higher.
"Bowie was interested all his life for art, which was first of all for him an inspiration for his work and for life," said the Agency Efe Simon Hucker, senior specialist of british art-modern and post-war at Sotheby s.
"art is, honestly, the only thing that I wanted to possess in my life. It has always been for my as a food. I have used it. I can make you feel different in the morning, I can change many ways, depending on what you’re going through," said Bowie in an interview to The New York Times in 1998 at its climax collector.
From their video clips to the covers of their albums through their costumes and makeup. No one will deny that Bowie was interested in art, although until now not known for sure the extent of the personal collection that amassed during her life and, especially, in the decade of the eighties and nineties.
The own widow, Iman, in charge of managing the collection, acknowledged a few days ago the british press to put to auction the works due to lack of space in the various residences that possessed the artist.
"Their tastes were as eclectic as he himself", explained the specialist from Sotheby’s to Efe. In your collection is very present the expressionist art british the vienna school, but there are also works of african art and abstract works.
"he Met many of the artists. We enjoyed talking with them to better understand their works," said Hucker.
Among them, the new yorker, Basquiat, author of the book "Air Power" (1984), a good sample of the art neoexpresionista that passion to Bowie (1947-2016), whose bid is expected to reach $ 5 million.
Precisely,, Bowie played Andy Warhol in the biopic on the post-modern artist who directed by Julian Schnabel in 1996.
Also he was captivated by the art, "outsider", which led him to buy works of artists who did not have the imprimatur of official recognition but that he had personally.
Among them Johann Fischer, a veteran of the second world war, with a workshop at a psychiatric hospital near Vienna (Austria) that Bowie personally visited.
The british singer was any life interested in art and even came to study design before turning to music.
Despite their success, they will become "icon" of pop culture, I never stopped drawing and in the nineties he exhibited in several galleries of his paintings that they drank of the different styles that he liked to collect, the art more figurative to the abstract, passing by the neoexpresionismo, explained to Efe the specialist of Sotheby s.
in Addition to pictorial works, the collection also includes sculptures of artists like Henry Moore or pieces of furniture that belong more to a museum than a home, such as the library colorist "Carlton", the architect and Italian designer, Ettore Sottsass, artist who owned other works, such as lamps and even a teapot.
The "last tour" of Bowie through the forty most representative works of art collection also passed by Hong kong, Los Angeles and London, where will take place the final bid.
Within the collection, two winks unforeseen and indirect to Spain thanks to two works that Bowie cherished by the painter, avant-garde british David Bomberg: paintings "Sunrise in the Mountains. Peaks of the Asturias" and "Moorish Ronda, Andalusia, spain", both of 1935.
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