David Bowie: “I only really wanted to own art. Art has been a continuous nourishment for me. I use it. It affects my mood since the morning. The same work of art can affect me in different ways depending on how I approach it"
Finally we will be able to admire the collection that Bowie has kept secret for over 50 years, with a tour (London: 20 July - 9 August; Los Angeles: 20-21 September; New York 26-29 September) and an exhibition in London from 1 to November 10, will then follow the auction and the race to win works such as: Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Frank Auerbach and Damien Hirst. But also works by masters of Surrealism or contemporary African art.
Some examples:
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Air Power, 1984
Acrylic and oilstick on canvas
£2.5-3.5m
Damien Hirst
Beautiful, Shattering, Slashing, Violent,
Pinky, Hacking, Sphincter Painting, 1995
Household gloss on canvas
£ 250,000-350,000
Frank Auerbach
Head of Gerda Boehm, 1965
oil on board
£ 300,000-500,000
Romuald Hazoume
Alexandra, 1995
Found objects
£5,000- 7,000
Harold Gilman
Interior (Mrs Mounter), 1917
Oil on canvas
£ 150,000-250,000
Peter Lanyon
Witness, 1961
Oil on canvas
£ 250,000-350,000
But also works by Italian designers such as Ettore Sottsass:
Ettore Sottsass
'Casablanca' Sideboard, 1981
£ 4,000-6,000
Or an unconventional turntable. Created by brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Brionvega; this cabinet of Italian design, nothing more than a 1960 stereo, while other specimens are in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni
Brionvega Radiophonograph, model no. RR 126, 1965
£ 800-1,200
