Editing David Bowie (section)

===Painter and art collector===
{{See also|David Bowie's art collection}}
Bowie was a painter and artist. He moved to Switzerland in 1976, purchasing a chalet in the hills north of [[Lake Geneva]]. In the new environment, his cocaine use decreased,<ref>{{Cite news |first=Malcolm |last=Curtis |url=https://www.thelocal.ch/20160111/bowies-discreet-time-in-switzerland-remembered |title=Bowie's discreet time in Switzerland recalled |work=[[The Local]] |date=11 January 2016|access-date=22 September 2017|archive-date=22 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922194144/https://www.thelocal.ch/20160111/bowies-discreet-time-in-switzerland-remembered|url-status=live}}</ref> and he devoted more time to his painting, producing a number of [[post-modernist]] pieces. When on tour, he took to sketching in a notebook, and photographing scenes for later reference. Visiting galleries in [[Geneva]] and the [[Brücke Museum]] in Berlin, Bowie became, in the words of Sandford, "a prolific producer and collector of contemporary art.&nbsp;... Not only did he become a well-known patron of [[expressionist art]]: locked in Clos des Mésanges he began an intensive self-improvement course in classical music and literature, and started work on an autobiography."{{sfn|Sandford|1997|pp=154–155}}

One of Bowie's paintings sold at auction in late 1990 for $500,<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Newsweek |title=Random notes |date=10 December 1990 |page=94}}</ref> and the cover for his 1995 album ''Outside'' is a close-up of a self-portrait he painted that year.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=698}} His first solo show, titled ''New Afro/Pagan and Work: 1975–1995'', was in 1995 at The Gallery in [[Cork Street]], London.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=697}} In 1997, he founded the publishing company 21 Publishing, whose first title was ''Blimey! – From Bohemia to Britpop: London Art World from Francis Bacon to Damien Hirst'' by [[Matthew Collings]].{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=698}} A year later, Bowie was invited to join the editorial board of the journal ''[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]]'',<ref name="TGS">{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |title=David Bowie's private art collection to be unveiled for the first time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/14/david-bowies-private-art-collection-unveiled-first-time-sothebys |url-status=live |date=14 July 2016 |access-date=14 July 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180203212019/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/14/david-bowies-private-art-collection-unveiled-first-time-sothebys |archive-date=3 February 2018}}</ref> and participated in the [[Nat Tate]] art hoax later that year.{{sfn|Pegg|2016|p=698}} The same year, during an interview with [[Michael Kimmelman]] for ''[[The New York Times]]'', he said "Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own."<ref>{{cite news |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Kimmelman |date=14 June 1998 |title=David Bowie on His Favorite Artists |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/arts/design/david-bowie-on-his-favorite-artists.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=5 December 2016 |archive-date=2 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102190400/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/15/arts/design/david-bowie-on-his-favorite-artists.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Subsequently, in a 1999 interview for the BBC, he said "The only thing I buy obsessively and addictively is art".<ref name=ibt>{{cite news |last=Silva |first=Cristina |title=David Bowie's Art Collection Is As Beautiful As You Imagined |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/david-bowies-art-collection-beautiful-you-imagined-photos-2391686 |url-status=live |newspaper=[[International Business Times]] |date=14 July 2016 |access-date=15 July 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716070520/http://www.ibtimes.com/david-bowies-art-collection-beautiful-you-imagined-photos-2391686 |archive-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> His art collection, which included works by [[Damien Hirst]], [[Derek Boshier]], [[Frank Auerbach]], [[Henry Moore]], and Jean-Michel Basquiat among others, was valued at over £10&nbsp;million in mid-2016.<ref name="TGS" />

After his death, his family decided to sell most of the collection because they "didn't have the space" to store it.<ref name="TGS" /> On 10 and 11&nbsp;November, three auctions were held at [[Sotheby's]] in London.<ref name=sh>{{cite web |url=https://www.sothebys.com/en/slideshows/david-bowies-art-captivates-collectors |title=David Bowie's Art Captivates Collectors |website=Sotheby's|date=14 November 2016 |access-date=30 December 2016|archive-date=2 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190202101821/https://www.sothebys.com/en/slideshows/david-bowies-art-captivates-collectors|url-status=live}}</ref> Exhibition of the works in the auction attracted 51,470 visitors; the auction was attended by 1,750 bidders, with over 1,000 more bidding online. The auction's overall sale total was £32.9&nbsp;million (app. $41.5&nbsp;million), while the highest-selling item, Basquiat's graffiti-inspired painting ''Air Power'', sold for £7.09&nbsp;million.<ref name=sh/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-bowie-art-collection-worth-over-41mn-auction-142214379.html |title=David Bowie art collection worth over $41 mn at auction |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |via=[[Yahoo! News]] |date=12 November 2016|access-date=30 December 2016|archive-date=1 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101214114/https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-bowie-art-collection-worth-over-41mn-auction-142214379.html|url-status=live}}</ref>