A portray by glam rock icon Davie Bowie has absent from thrift-shop oddity to six-determine fame.
A Toronto auction property states a Bowie portray that was uncovered at a donation centre in northern Ontario fetched $108,one hundred twenty Cdn in an online sale that closed Thursday.
Cowley Abbott states DHead XLVI drew interest from collectors across the globe, driving up bids very well earlier the pre-sale estimate of in between $nine,000 and $twelve,000, and setting a new auction report for the musician turned artist.
The 1997 acrylic and computer system collage is one particular of 45 performs on canvas in Bowie’s Useless Heads series depicting band associates, friends and the rocker himself.
Cowley Abbott states the consignor procured the portrait for $5 just after discovering it in a pile of second-hand products in South River close to North Bay, Ont.
The auction property states the winning bid was positioned by a private U.S. collector. The price incorporates auction property service fees.
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