But who was the man behind these splendid avatars in the shape of lures? Unfortunately, it is no longer possible to try and bring any answer to this question, since that fateful day of January 10, 2016.
The fact remains, however, that being fascinated by the artist and his music, I created a couple of gouaches with David Bowie as a theme, by the mid Seventies.
Here are the specific circumstances that allowed me to do so : I had obtained from RCA in the US (Bowie’s record company by then) a set of photographic documentation during a stay in New York City in the summer of 1975. Being on vacation in Stamford, Connecticut and staying at my American friend Sue Rudman’s family, I was able to get an appointment at RCA at the Major’s Art Department, the headquarters of which were at the time in Manhattan, at 1133 Avenue of the Americas. There I showed what I had done regarding Elton John, as well as describing my intentions regarding Bowie. What my interlocutors saw had convinced them enough to grant me with a set of RCA promotional photos of Bowie, so that I could take inspiration from them. RCA’s prospect being to see what I might achieve eventually graphically with the help of that material. I thus used these pictures as a basis for the majority of my works, since that was the deal.

Subsequently, my contacts at RCA kept me posted upon the progress of things - which ultimately went nowhere. Perhaps Bowie, whom RCA assured me by mail that he was submitted some reproductions of my work, had not identified with what he saw. Or he had not been impressed by these samples’ artistic merits? In view of the produced work of then (which I always try to evaluate in the most impartial possible way, each time that I look at that work), a little of both probably.

But in retrospect, I have the feeling that when these few gouaches were submitted to Bowie (if they ever really were), most of them showed the chameleon artist sporting the dandy looks that the ex-Ziggy Stardust favoured between 1974 and 1975.