The Great Rex Ray Give-away Starts Today

All you’ve got to do is win…

I know we’ve been promising this one for an age, (11.20.07 NEWS: REX RAY BOOK SIGNING IN LA TONIGHT PLUS NEW MINI-SITE) but, due to a whole bunch of feeble excuses, today is the very earliest opportunity we’ve had to run it.

For most of us, owning any kind of original Rex Ray artwork is a dream beyond our financial means, but over the coming weeks ten lucky BowieNetters will do just that.

First up, the image above is a rare withdrawn Rex Ray print advertising David’s 2004 Berkeley shows. The print was never distributed due to the misspelling of Berkeley in the second instance that it is used.

For this reason the print alone is a valuable collectable. However, this version is a limited run of ten untrimmed 20″ x 14″ (508mm x 355mm) hand-numbered prints, customised by Rex in the Reality style and signed by both Rex Ray and David Bowie in 2006.

We have numbers 2 to 10 to give-away and one copy of the beauty below.

This print is even rarer, being a 19.5″ x 13″ (495mm x 330mm) artist’s proof (AP) of an unpublished portrait of DB by Rex Ray and again signed by them both in 2006. As far as I am aware, there are no more than three or four of these in existence.

I should point out that each of the prints has a very slight crease in one corner due to transit damage, but that’s unlikely to show once the print is framed.

I had plotted all sorts of cruel and mischievous tasks to win these, but in the end I felt it was fairer to give everybody an equal chance to win.

So, the plan is that we’ll be giving away one print every Sunday, starting next week (13th).

All you have to do to be in with a chance of being that first winner is contact me here before midnight NY time on Saturday the 12th.

We’ll start with the nine Berkeley prints in descending numbered order followed by the AP.

After they have been plucked from the week’s entries, the winner of each individual print will be announced every Sunday until all ten prizes have gone. If you don’t win, you can re-enter each week to give you a total of ten chances.

Usual BowieNet rules apply: Only one entry per BowieNet account per week, and please remember you must enter using your BowieNet e-mail or at least supply your BowieNet user name. If you do neither of these things you won’t be eligible to enter.

The first winner will be announced next Sunday the 13th and the contest for the second artwork will commence at the same time.

BowieNet members can view larger versions of both of the above here on the MBs. Good luck.