"Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own," David Bowie told the New York Times in a 1988 interview. Although the musician was a passionate patron of the art world, and even a painter himself, the interview was one of only a handful of times he had alluded to his private art collection.
It wasn't until after his death in January, when his estate reached out to Sotheby's in London about the artwork, that people even within the art world realized the breadth and diversity of the collection he had quietly acquired for decades.
