David Bowie‘s collection of a wide variety of contemporary art and design is instructive insofar as it shows that in order to get it you must engage with it. An avid and genuine collector he was deeply involved with and sustained by art and design. “I use it” he explained once. “It can change the way I feel in the mornings”.
His collection spans post-war British avant grade painting centred on St. Ives to German Expressionism and works created in the aftermath of the first democratic elections in South Africa.. It includes a “spin” painting he made in collaboration with Damien Hirst, an altarpiece by the Renaissance master Tintoretto and works by 20th century Modern British masters like David Bomberg, Stanley Spencer, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. There is a painting by Jack B. Yeats entitled Sleep Sound.
Bowie/Collector is a sale in three parts. It will begin with an evening sale of modern and contemporary art on November 10. There will be a day auction of art the following morning and a design sale that afternoon. All the catalogues are online.
(See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for July 14 and August 23, 2016)
Willie Bester (born 1956) – What happened in the Western Cape? (£2,000-3,000)
Damien Hirst with David Bowie Beautiful, hallo, space boy painting 1995 (£250,000-350,000)
Jacopo Robusti known as Jacopo Tintoretto and Studio – The Angel foretelling St. Catherine of Alexandria of her martyrdom (£100,000-150,000)