🎨🟪🔝Dawn

Visual Artist – Odd Nerdrum ✔Certified

Impactful 🟪: 93% – Dawn (1989) became a defining image of resistance against modernist dogma. Four identical figures seated in volcanic desolation, mouths open in silent screams, representing humanity stripped of institutions and left with nothing but suffering. Owned by David Bowie, it sold for over $400,000 and inspired scenes in The Cell. Painted with Rembrandt’s technique during the height of conceptual art’s dominance, it proved that Old Master methods could still convey contemporary alienation. The heretic’s manifesto made visible.

Bowie art sales led by Odd Nerdrum’s Dawn

Odd Nerdrum’s Dawn (1990) led the second part of the auction of David Bowie’s art collection at Sotheby’s in London on November 11. It’s one of the artist’s most recognisable paintings and made £341,000 ($535,472), an increase of 326.2% on a valuation of £80,000 ($125,624). Odd Nerdrum describes his own work as kitsch