Damien Hirst's vitrine of a shark in formaldehyde, The Kingdom sells for £8.5 million (beating its high estimate of £6 million; with premium the total was £9,561,250) to a telephone bidder at Sotheby's in the first session of their Hirst megasale Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, 15 September.
there are shark libbers out there.last week 2 great whites took an abalone diver rising to the surface off the coast of australia witnessed by the boat guy who was treated for shock .when will people stop putting sharks on pedestals and see them as that poor bastard saw them.
stankler 8 months ago
@JeanEmar3 doesnt mean anything.
twentyletternamesftw 1 year ago
This is my opinion about DH :
...because the line between art and garbage can be thin.
Sometimes even artists cannot see it.
JeanEmar3 1 year ago
bunch of tools. sharks should be left in the water not put in a tank of formaldehyde for a charlatan like hirst to make millions with. These millionaires will pay for their opulence one day soon.
doggolex 2 years ago
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sundog358 2 years ago
Hirst couldn't have timed this sale any better. He would never get these prices today.
dksculpture 3 years ago
Check artist Josignacio Painting
FineArtsProductions 3 years ago
Special offer! Shark for only £1000000!
Save £8,500,000 on the Damien Hirst Parody! A shark displayed 2 years before Hirsts first shark is on sale for the bargain price of only £1000000.
Eddie Saunders displayed the first shark in his former JD electrical shop, Shoreditch, from 1989, 2 yrs before Hirst. In 2003 it was put on display in the Stuckism International Gallery and is titled A Dead Shark Isn't Art.
Contact Stuckism for further details.
Offer valid till 31 9 08
serotastinofshit 3 years ago
Thanks for the video.
I tried to watch it live last night at sotheby's website but I have a plug missing in my mac.
I wish I was there!
mhuerta1 3 years ago