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Edward Bell (British) David Starts to Make Up For Scary Monsters, 1980 image 1
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Edward Bell (British)
David Starts to Make Up For Scary Monsters, 1980

3 March 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Edward Bell (British)

David Starts to Make Up For Scary Monsters, 1980
polaroid photograph, depicting Bowie from the Scary Monsters album shoot, signed and titled by the photographer in black ink to an area of the mount
photo 9 x 9cm (3 1/2 x 3 1/2in); with frame 12 x 17cm (4 3/4 x 6 3/4in)

Footnotes

Provenance
The David Bowie Collection of Artist Edward Bell

Illustrated
Edward Bell, Unmade Up...Recollections of a friendship with David Bowie, Unicorn Publishing Group, 2017, p. 18.

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