A painting by David Bowie purchased for $5 at a landfill fetches $88K
Editor’s Note: This article was updated with the final sale price and other details following the auction’s conclusion. CNN — A painting by rock icon David Bowie has sold for almost $88,000 at an online art auction after someone picked it up for a few bucks at a donation center at an Ontario landfill. The portrait, titled “DHead XLVI,” is part of a series of approximately 47 works that Bowie created between 1995 and 1997, according to Rob Cowley, president of Cowley Abbott, which handled the auction.
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