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British artist Damien Hirst works fetch record prices
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by Sanjay Jha | September 15, 2008 at 09:51 pm
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Damien Hirst is today arguably the most successful artist alive in Modern Britain. He has set a record of sort with his new works for more than £65m. One of his work The Black Sheep with the Golden Horn, another animal in formaldehyde was sold for £2.6m.
The previous record for a sale dedicated to a single artist was set in 1993 for works by Picasso, which went for a total of $20m (£11m)
An auction of art works by Damien Hirst has smashed top estimates to bring in a record total of £70.5m ($125m), with still more works for sale.
The British artist has abandoned the traditional method of selling through dealers and galleries, going straight to the auction house Sotheby's instead.
It is the first time an artist has sold a substantial body of work this way.
Sotheby's say the sale - which runs over two days - has set a new record for a sale dedicated to one artist.
Hirst has specialised in displaying animals preserved in tanks of chemicals.
Among the lots were The Golden Calf - a bull in a tank of formaldehyde, with its head crowned by a gold disc - which sold for £9.2m ($16.5m).
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at 22:49 on September 15th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff. It was £70 million and counting as he has two more auctions up and coming.
at 23:51 on September 15th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 01:29 on September 16th, 2008
In the Daily Mail recently, they made some of Damian Hurst's 'art' for a fraction of the price, including the one with the dove, dots and shark, meaning that his work is way overpriced.
at 01:39 on September 16th, 2008
Here we go. I deliberately kept the article (Mail 13/9/08).
When the paper recreated his work these are their prices:
Neo Mchin Sulfate (the dot one) Hirst's Price £40. Daily Mail £22.85
(The Mail said that was 'easy peasy')
The Shark
Damian £6m Daily Mail £550 (they went to a taxidermist in London and surfed the web for some fish tanks)
After the Flood. Hirst's price £1.5m, Daily Mail £85 (they got a twig free from Hyde Park)
at 01:40 on September 16th, 2008
I think anyone could have done these too.
at 12:31 on September 16th, 2008
He is outdoing himself again. I thought that his diamond encrusted skull, "For the Love of God" was crazy and expensive and he had manged to go one step farther.
at 13:24 on October 1st, 2008
shark tail at the Metropolitan Art Museum in NYC
davidgrinnell has contributed a photo to this story.
at 21:36 on December 9th, 2008
this really is not art.