A diamond-encrusted platinum skull by artist Damien Hirst has been sold to an investment group for the asking price of $100 million, a spokeswoman for Hirst's London gallery White Cube said on Thursday....I'm skeptical. About the sale, I mean. What is this "investment group"? It sounds as though it's largely composed of Hirst himself. So he got the asking price, eh? Prove it.
The spokeswoman said she could give no more details of the buyer.
"Damien Hirst has retained a participation in the work -- he still owns a share of it -- in order that he can oversee a global tour of the work that is currently being planned," she added.
August 30, 2007
"He couldn't remember whether it had cost 10 or 15 million pounds to make."
Remember the diamond-encrusted skull, offered for sale at $100 million? Sold.
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C'mon! It's reported in the Times. It must be true!
----For reasons which are known to them.....
Seems like he should include the sales receipt as part of the work of art as it tours.
Given that the work is about exceedingly conspicuous consumption, the bill of sale itself is also a work of art.
The sad thing about that skull is that it is really unattractive and garish. I wouldn't pay more than the raw materials cost for it.
I wouldn't think less of Hirst if he'd orchestrated this whole diamond-skull media circus himself. By sidestepping the conventional routes that his peers take, he proves that for an entrepreneurial modern artist, there's more than one way to skin a cat. Or bisect a sheep. Or pickle a shark. Or freeze-dry a ferret . . .
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