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Have you got any scrap pieces of gold lying around? Maybe a broken necklace which is going to cost more to fix it, than it´s worth? Damien Hirst certainly had a lot of gold lying around…even a few diamonds, sharks, bulls…
Damien Hirst is an artist who is consistently making headlines with his controversial art practices. Possibly his first ever controversial sculpture was his famous ‘The Physical Impossibilty of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’, 1991, more commonly known as the Shark – which is infact, exactly what it is – A huge Tiger Shark, set in 4,360 gallons of formaldehyde. Another of his sculptures ‘For The Love of God’, 2007, is a human skull with real teeth, incased in platinum and about 8,500 diamonds – the most expensive piece of art ever made, with the selling price quite modestly sitting at about ten million pounds.
An auction entitled Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby´s in New York September 2008 saw Hirst auctioning off a number of formaldehyde sculptures and paintings, but maybe the ‘prize bull’ was that of his ‘The Golden Calf’, a bull set in formaldehyde, which had its hooves, and horns cast in 18-carat gold, its head crowned with a solid gold disc. The 2.15 metre sculpture sits in a gold encased box, on a marble base, and was expected to fetch up to twelve million pounds. To find out more on your gold scraps, and if they´re are worth any money check out Postalgold´s website.
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