David Bowie's personal art collection on show at new exhibition

The collection - which is almost 300 pieces strong - features works by Damien Hirst, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, and Frank Auerbach.

Beth Greenacre, Bowie's curator since 2000, has spoken about the "connections in his private collection" and "how Bowie used art to understand his place in the world." Watch the video interview where she discusses Bowie as an artist and collector, as well as what it was like to speak with Bowie about creativity outside of music.

Kate Chertavian, who helped Bowie build his collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art in the '90s, has spoken with Sotheby's Oliver Barker about the significance of Bowie's collection. Describing the "collaborative process", Chertavian says: "There was a restorative nature to his collection. He was not a lazy man, I mean he did not sit around and just enjoy life, he was constantly working at something, so when he was working at his collection he was also in the studio; and you’d asked me earlier where I met him, I met him everywhere. There was never a dull moment."

Read the full interview.

In a new video on the BBC, Will Gompertz speaks to Greenacre and Chertavian and looks at the pieces in Bowie's collection as they go on display at the London auction house. You can check that out now.

As well as the accounts from Greenacre and Chertavian, renowned artist Damien Hirst has written about working with Bowie, at one point recalling a bizarre artwork they created together:

"David was like a child, childish and childlike... he came to see me in the studio and we made a giant spin painting together, you have to live in the moment and give up all your preconceptions and let yourself go and just have fun and let the universe do its thing, he was brilliant fun to spin with. I remember telling him to come to the studio in old clothes, he said he didn’t have any old clothes but didn’t mind getting paint on the new shit he was wearing, I loved that! He took off his watch at one point and stuck it on the painting but we spun it some more and it threw it across the studio and smashed it, he never even picked it up."

Head down to glimpse the exhibition from now until 10 November. As well as the exhibition, there are a range of talks this coming weekend and an 'All Night View', featuring guided tours, DJs, late-night film screenings, and (very) early morning yoga.