Alternative Asset Data

for Luxury Collectibles

ALT/FNDATA is the market data platform for passion investments: realized auction prices, valuations and tax tools across watches, art, cars, jewelry and wine.

Close
All featured collections
David Bowie

David Bowie

Fine Art

A serious, private collector of modern British and contemporary art. His estate's collection sold at Sotheby's London in the “Bowie/Collector” sales, 10–11 November 2016 — ~400 works for roughly £32.9m (~$41m), one of the most richly documented celebrity collections on record.

Realized at sale$8.8M
Estimated today modeled~$9.4M
+7%
Modeled value over timemodeled

Realized price carried forward by ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price trend for each lot’s category.

A modeled market-level estimate, not an appraisal. Individual pieces vary.

Documented sales

Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Air Power” (1984)
Jean-Michel Basquiat, “Air Power” (1984) Confirmed
Sotheby's·Bowie/Collector, London · Nov 10, 2016
Top lot of the sale, against a £2.5–3.5m estimate. Bowie had bought it at Christie's London in 1995.
Sotheby's Image: Sotheby's
Realized~£7.1m (~$8.8m)
Frank Auerbach, “Head of Gerda Boehm” (1965)
Frank Auerbach, “Head of Gerda Boehm” (1965) Confirmed
Sotheby's·Bowie/Collector, London · Nov 10, 2016
About 10x its estimate, an artist record at the time — one of 11 records set that evening for 20th-century British artists.
Antiques and Arts Ireland Image: Sotheby's
Realized£3.8m

“Estimated today” is a modeled figure, not an appraisal: each realized price is adjusted by the change in ALT/FNDATA’s trophy-tier price level for its category (the median of comparable high-value lots, from the sale year to the present). It is a market-level estimate; individual pieces vary, and categories without enough comparable high-value data are shown as insufficient to estimate.

Notable historical collection. The realized figures are public auction results, from the dates shown. “Estimated today” and the value chart are modeled market estimates, not a live valuation or appraisal, and not a current holding.
Explore in the app →

Portrait: Adam Bielawski / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.