Damien Hirst skull sold for £50 Million
The diamond-encrusted skull by British artist Damien Hirst sold on Thursday for £50 million or($100 million if that sound better lol), a record price for work sold by a living artist, a London gallery announced. The artist’s London gallery, WHITE CUBE, announced today that an unnamed “investment group” has purchased the bauble for the original asking price nearly a month after the unsold piece was removed from display.
The work, entitled ‘For the Love of God’, is a skull cast in platinum and encrusted with 8,601 diamonds. Carbon dating has shown that the original skull on which Hirst’s work is modelled dates to the 18th century.
