While David Bowie occasionally lent pieces from his private art collection to galleries for exhibitions, the whole thing has never been made available to the public in full. Until now, that is. Featuring works from the likes of Basquiat, Hirst and Auerbach, a major exhibition is coming to London this November.
Interior (Mrs Mounter) is simple and stark in comparison to much of Bowie’s collection. There are no bright colours, nothing remotely in-your-face about it. Instead, it depicts a typical room in a 1917 British abode, something that might have connected with Bowie’s working class upbringing in Brixton.
“My God, yeah! I want to sound like that looks”, Bowie once said of Frank Auerbach’s work. This piece is Head Of Gerda Boehm, which Bowie lent to the Royal Academy in 2001 for their retrospective on the British artist’s textured, unique work.
