The 1997 painting, called “DHead XLVI,” was originally bought at an Ontario landfill donation center for $5 .
“The sale marks a new global auction record for a work by David Bowie, more than doubling the 2016 sale of a D Head series artwork for £22,500 in the United Kingdom,” Cowley Abbott said in a news release.
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