The display of Bowie’s private art collection is currently running at Sotheby’s auction house in NYC.  Bowie’s art collection heads to Hong Kong next and will then go up for auction.
In July, Sotheby’s announced that it would auction off 400 works from the collection of David Bowie, a sale that would take place over the course of three nights and feature works by British artists Frank Auerbach, David Bomberg and Harold Gilman, as well as Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose 1984 painting Air Power is expected to sell for 3,2 million to 4,5 million dollars. Sotheby’s has wisely decided to take the collection on the road, shipping it to a few of its global outposts and displaying just a small sample of the goods in each of its salesrooms.

On Monday, it came to Sotheby’s New York headquarters, a four-day homecoming for some works that may have been hung in Bowie’s penthouse apartment, 75 blocks south, in SoHo. While living here, Bowie was clearly enamored of New York’s art world. Bowie would duck into the Whitney Biennial and shows at MoMA, always keeping a low profile. Now, he’s back in town, in a way, until Friday, when the collection goes off to Hong Kong before heading to London to hit the block. This stop on the “Bowie/Collector” tour features just a few works from the massive 400-work trove, but it manages to offer some insight into what Bowie wanted on his walls, and the sensibility he had when collecting.