{"id":10158,"date":"2019-09-14T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T22:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10158"},"modified":"2019-09-29T16:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:30:55","slug":"bowies-tintoretto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/14\/bowies-tintoretto\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowie’s Tintoretto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Observer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Bowie\u2019s Prized Tintoretto Masterpiece Will Go on View in Venice<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Helen Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Angel Foretelling Saint Catherine of Alexandria of Her Martyrdom<\/em>\u00a0by Tintoretto at the Sotheby\u2019s Bowie auction.\u00a0Wolfram Kastl \/ picture alliance via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

David Bowie<\/a>\u2018s long and multifaceted career redefined how audiences interpreted the boundary between musical and visual art, so it stands to reason that The Man Who Fell to Earth<\/em><\/a> cultivated a big collection of landmark works during his lifetime. Bowie was a prolific fan of contemporary art, but one of his most treasured pieces was much older: an altarpiece made by the dramatic Italian master Tintoretto entitled The Angel Foretelling Saint Catherine of Alexandria of Her Martyrdom, <\/em>which Bowie bought from a dealer in London in 1987. This week, Saint Catherine<\/em> is going on display in Venice<\/a> after having recently been purchased by Marnix Neerman, a Belgian collector who elected to place the altarpiece in a show devoted to Flemish and Italian Old Masters<\/a> that will open at the Palazzo Ducale<\/a> on September 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The altarpiece was purchased by Neerman for 191,000 pounds at a\u00a0record-breaking Sotheby\u2019s auction<\/a>\u00a0held in 2016 that featured a vast array of Bowie\u2019s collection. The musician had pieces by Winifred Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, David Bomberg, Frank Auerbach, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alan Davie, Marcel Duchamp and many others; he even collaborated with some famous stars like Damien Hirst on original works that were both kaleidoscopic and psychedelic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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