Bejewelled skull sold for $100 million
10 Sep 2007
As a work of art that's all about outrageous and pointless overspending, the $100 million price tag - with its nice round number trailing all those lovely zeros - is the most important and valuable…
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As a work of art that's all about outrageous and pointless overspending, the $100 million price tag - with its nice round number trailing all those lovely zeros - is the most important and valuable art supply that went into Damian Hirst's For the Love of God, says The Washington Post.
"More than anyone, Hirst knows that we have reached a new level of absurd consumption - in the art market, clearly, but also elsewhere on this carbon-laden world."