Iman shares beforehand unseen 2014 portray by late husband David Bowie

David Bowie’s widow Iman has shared photographs of a beforehand unseen portray that the musician created in 2014 – test it out under.

The one earlier sighting of the portray in query had been as a partially-obscured backdrop to a sequence of portraits of Bowie by the photographer Jimmy King at across the similar time.

The summary portray is dazzlingly vibrant splash of yellow and blue and seems to be personally signed by the music legend, who handed away in January 2016.

See the photographs shared by Iman right here:

In 2021, one other portray by Bowie that was purchased for simply £3 fetched over £60,000 at public sale. The piece dated again to 1997 and was a part of a sequence of 47 portraits that Bowie labored on round that point.

In different Bowie information, his 1974 album ‘Diamond Canines’ was reissued in Might to mark its fiftieth anniversary. The album, made within the absence of standard guitarist Mick Ronson, noticed Bowie enjoying taking the lead on the instrument himself, and was made within the aftermath of his failed makes an attempt to adapt Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-4 and a challenge primarily based on the writing of William S. Burroughs.

One other gem from the Bowie archive was made out there for File Retailer Day this yr within the type of ‘Ready In The Sky (Earlier than The Starman Got here To Earth), a set of recordings from Trident Studios in 1971 of songs that may go on to kind the ‘Ziggy Stardust’ album a yr later.

In April, long-time Bowie collaborator Brian Eno spoke concerning the “highly effective” expertise of transforming their tune ‘Get Actual’ for a brand new local weather change-inspired album challenge ‘Sounds Proper’.

A road in Paris was additionally named after the singer in the beginning of the yr, whereas one among his handwritten lyric sheets was estimated to fetch as much as £100,000 at public sale.