NEW YORK, NY.- A 1994 charcoal and pastel self-portrait titled Head of DB by the late pop star David Bowie will be auctioned on 30th June in Auctionata’s Post-War and Contemporary Sale.

Although best known as a singer/songwriter, David Bowie expressed himself through a wide variety of art forms. This brooding work was one of the two self-portraits included in Bowie’s 1995 London art exhibition “New Afro/Pagan and Work: 1975-1995” at the Gallery in Cork Street. From a large series of self-portraits the artist made over his lifetime, this work is reflective of Bowie’s constant exploration of identity and ever-changing stage persona.

Inspired by - and reputedly a collector of - German Expressionist art, in his introduction to the 1995 exhibition, Bowie stated, “In neither music nor art have I a real style, craft or technique. I just plummet through, on either a wave of euphoria or mind-splintering dejection. This can often all be held together by a bloody-minded determination to create something that was not there before.”

In 2013, a collection of artworks by Bowie, including two portraits of Iggy Pop and one of the Japanese author and film director Yukio Mishima, were exhibited in the blockbuster exhibition “David Bowie Is” that sold more than 1,300,000 tickets. The exhibition opened at Victoria and Albert Museum in London, before touring to Toronto, Sao Paulo, Berlin, Chicago, Paris and Melbourne and included another charcoal self-portrait and drawings from the Minotaur series created by Bowie for his 1995 exhibition. Another self-portrait sold this year for £22,500 over an estimate of £3,000-5,000.

Bowie died on 10 January this year after a battle with liver cancer.

Auctionata is offering the drawing at a starting price of €7,000. The drawing was valued at £14,000 by the experts at Value My Stuff, an online appraisal company which merged with Auctionata in September 2015.