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ottobre 19, 2016 - Sotheby

David Bowie's Collection First Look

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Invitation to view

The Personal Collection of David Bowie

Ahead of the Public Exhibition Opening and Auction 

David Bowie's curators, Sotheby's specialists and special guests will be available to discuss the collection

Breakfast will be served

Tuesday 1 November 2016, 8am till noon:

Photographers & Film Crews from 8am

Correspondents from 9am

Sale Highlights

◦ A Spin Painting Bowie Made in Collaboration with Damien Hirst ◦ Two Masterworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat ◦ Surrealist Art by Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Man Ray ◦ Contemporary African Sculptures and Paintings ◦ 100 Design Pieces by the Revolutionary Memphis Group ◦ David Bowie's Record Player ◦ An Altarpiece by Renaissance Master Tintoretto ◦ Modern British Art by Greats including Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Peter Lanyon ◦ "Outsider" Art Created at the Gugging Haus der Künstler (House of the Artists) near Vienna  ◦ Post-war British Avant-Garde Painting from St Ives ◦ Daring Pieces of Twentieth Century Design, ranging from Tea Pots to Vases, Lamps, Tables, Chairs, Clocks and Carpets ◦

About The Collection

Musician, actor, icon — #davidbowie was for almost 50 years one of the most recognised and revered artists in the world, his influence transcending music to shape the wider culture of our time. His life as an art collector, however, was something he kept almost entirely hidden from public view. Now, for the first time, this little-known side of Bowie will be fully revealed.

In November, Sotheby's will stage Bowie/Collector – a three-part sale that includes a selection of around 400 items from the personal collection of #davidbowie. At its heart will be Bowie's collection of Modern and Contemporary British art – a richly stimulating group of over 200 works by many of the most important British artists of the 20th century, including Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Frank Auerbach and Damien Hirst. Bowie's famously inquisitive mind also led him to Outsider Art, Surrealism, Contemporary African art and, not least, to the work of the eccentric Italian designer Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group. This is a collection put together with great thoughtfulness on the basis not of reputation but of Bowie's highly personal, intellectual response to the individual vision and individual works of particular artists.