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Photograph By Gottfried Helnwein

Date assessed by the facts that it’s confirmed to be taken in “1988” on the auction site, and the fact that the only time Michael was in Cologne, the hometown of Gottfried Helnwein, was on July 3, 1988. He is also in his Bad Tour outfit, which makes it more likely that it was taken on his concert day in Cologne, which only occurred on July 3, 1988.