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A sealed and unopened copy of the fine art box set Ricochet: David Bowie 1983, an image encyclopedia documenting the musician's most successful tour to date. This lot comes from the personal collection of renowned English photographer Denis O'Regan.
This is a museum-quality fine art box set, released in 2018 as one of 2,000 limited edition copies. The set includes an exclusive 12-inch red vinyl featuring Ricochet on Side A and Let's Dance (remastered by Nile Rodgers) on Side AA. Also included is a 320-page coffee-table book featuring intimate photographs of Bowie, alongside four smaller volumes titled Serious Moonlight, You Pretty Things, Divine Symmetry, and Word On a Wing. The set further contains four photographic prints by O'Regan, each signed and individually numbered in black marker by him, and each accompanied by its own certificate of authenticity.
The box set is numbered 0118 out of 2,000 and includes an official certificate of authenticity issued by the David Bowie Estate. All of the contents displayed in the photographs are presented in a clear acrylic case, stored in a sealed, unopened box. The images of the contents provided are not from this set and are provided as an example. Dimensions (case): 60 cm x 50.5 cm x 9 cm (23.5" x 20" x 3.5")
Established photographer Denis O'Regan has worked with some of the biggest names in music, including Queen, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Duran Duran, KISS and many more. His renowned images span multiple genres, including Punk, New Romanticism, and Grunge, and have been widely published in several books and exhibited worldwide.
As a child, O'Regan witnessed The Beatles at London's Hammersmith Odeon, and as a teenager, he saw David Bowie's penultimate Ziggy Stardust show. A decade later, he returned as Bowie's official photographer on the Serious Moonlight world tour and would go on to photograph the musician more than any other photographer. O'Regan also became the tour photographer for Queen, Pink Floyd, KISS, and Duran Duran.
Other highlights in his career include covering the only Rolling Stones European tour of the decade in 1982, flying into Knebworth alongside Queen's helicopter for Freddie Mercury's last performance in 1986, photographing David Bowie by the Berlin Wall in 1987, and covering Pink Floyd's final tour in 1994.
O'Regan's Ricochet: David Bowie 1983: An Intimate Portrait box set is held in the V&A Permanent Collection, and in 2022, he was appointed the Royal Albert Hall's first Artist in Residence. His book, David Bowie by Denis O'Regan, was released in September 2025.
The collection comprises 19 lots (Lots 8, 47, 54, 67, 80, 82, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 96, 99, 101, 102, 366, 373, 395, and 410), including limited-edition fine art prints, copies of his publications and memorabilia preserved from his years photographing many internationally recognised artists.
Estimate: £2,000 - 4,000 M