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The latest place to spot a Damien Hirst is not in the galleries ... These sculptures have commanded millions at auction—a shark work, The Kingdom, fetched $17.1 million at Sotheby’s London ...
The reasons: it stinks, it’s turning green, and its fin is falling off. It’s well-known that Damien Hirst put a shark in a tank, gave it a long and vaguely philosophical title—The Physical ...
A formaldehyde shark made by contemporary artist Damien Hirst was misleadingly dated to the 1990s, even though it was actually made in 2017, a Guardian investigation found. The 13-foot long shark ...
The shark is British artist Damien Hirst’s 1999 sculpture “The Unknown (Explored, Explained, Exploded),” and it swims at the Palms’ new Unknown Bar, which Hirst designed. Palms owners ...
Damien is a millionaire many times over ... would become his friend and dealer Jay Jopling, sourced a shark in Australasia, and Hirst transformed it in 1991, into a work suspended in a sealed ...
It’s not easy to blend into the background at an exhibition of minimalist art, but Damien Hirst is somehow succeeding. On a rainy night back in January, a fashionable throng circulates through ...
"What was it about the shark, about actually getting a [real ... Turns out, he was impossible to ignore. In Damien Hirst's hands, anatomical models became giant sculptures; medicine cabinets ...
In 2005, artist Damien Hirst's dead shark reportedly sold for $12 million. Meanwhile, a small business owner named Eddie Saunders had a dead shark hanging in his electrical shop for years.
Damien Hirst's pickled shark, the most valuable and iconic symbol of the 1990s boom in conceptual art in Britain, is rotting and is likely to be swapped for a fresher specimen. The Art Newspaper ...
Damien Hirst has made a fortune and become an art ... A buyer paid $17 million for a shark preserved in formaldehyde, and an embalmed calf with golden hoofs sold for $18.5 million.