David Bowie's sombre art collection needs more space oddities

Aside from Jean-Michel Basquiat and Marcel Duchamp, there’s little provocation or pop art brashness in David Bowie’s art collection – instead he’s weirdly fascinated by 20th-century British painting

David Bowie’s art collection was tasteful. Disappointingly tasteful. As Sotheby’s announces the full list of art owned by the late great pop star, to be auctioned in November, it is hard to stifle a yawn.

Where are the vulgar pop art provocations? Where is the camp outrage, the punk iconoclasm? And where’s Andy Warhol?

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