Sleep Sound by Jack B. Yeats from the collection of David Bowie.
Sleep Sound, a 1955 painting by Jack B. Yeats from the collection of David Bowie, comes up at Sotheby’s in November. It is one of about 400 lots from the Bowie collection to be sold. Now estimated at around £180,000 it was bought at Sotheby’s by Bowie in 1993 for £45,500. Sotheby’s will tour to Bowie Collection to New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong. It will be on display at New Bond St. in London form November 1-10.
Yeats, who is Ireland’s best know artist on the international stage, was a modernist and expressionist whose art frequently expresses the essence of its subject. Under these circumstances it is hardly surprising that the artistic Bowie was numbered among his fans.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for July 14, 2016)