David Bowie painting that was bought for £3 has sold at auction for £63,000
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nme.comDavid Bowie that was bought for just CAD$5 (£3) has fetched nearly CAD$108,120 (£63,115) at a recent auction.The 1997 painting, which put up for auction by Canadian fine arts seller and auctioneer Cowley Abbottpresident Rob Cowley, is part of a series of 47 paintings that Bowie had worked on between 1995 and 1997.Bowie signed and dated the painting on the back of its 9.75 x 8inch canvas.
Its title, ‘DHead XLVI’, is also on the back of the artwork, according to Cowley Abbott’s catalogue.A post shared by Cowley Abbott (@cowleyabbott)The piece was picked up for approximately CAD$5 (approximately £3) last year at a donation centre at a landfill in Ontario, Canada, Cowley told CNN prior to the auction.The piece was estimated to reach a bid of.
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