The first items from David Bowie’s personal art collection were sold at auction in London on Thursday, fetching more than £24m. Another Basquiat work, Untitled, sold for nearly £2.4m, more than three times its £700,000 upper estimate. The auction hall in Sotheby’s London offices was packed for Thursday night’s sale, the first of three that Sotheby’s said will offer about 400 lots from Bowie’s personal collection. The first two sales at Sotheby’s, including Thursday’s 47-lot sale and a day sale on Friday, focus on Bowie’s modern and contemporary art pieces. David Bowie's sombre art collection needs more space oddities Read more“David’s art collection was fuelled by personal interest and compiled out of passion.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2016 01:05 UTC