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Damien Hirst
Lucian Freud
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David Bowie’s wallpaper homage to Damien Hirst and Lucian Freud up for auction
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breakingnews.ieTwo wallpaper prints designed by David Bowie are estimated to sell for up to £56,000 later this month. The singer and actor, who died in 2016, produced the designs in 1995 with British homeware brand Laura Ashley.
The first, titled Conflict, depicts Lucian Freud’s nude artwork Painter Working, Reflection from 1993, submerged in the kind of formaldehyde tank made famous by Damien Hirst.
It is estimated to sell for between £20,060 and £32,114. The print was conceived for Bowie’s debut exhibition, New Afro/Pagan and Work: 1975-1995, held on London’s Cork Street in 1995, where it was plastered across a series of columns.
In an interview in 1996, Bowie said of the design: “It involved creating pilasters; half-columns against a wall covered in an
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