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Article: Labour pays [pounds sterling]175,000 for a Damien Hirst only the EU will see.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 6, 2005
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Byline: JASON LEWIS
LABOUR has spent [pounds sterling]175,000 of taxpayers' cash to buy a painting by artist Damien Hirst which the public are never likely to see.
The picture, Pardaxin, was purchased last March and sent to Brussels as the centrepiece of an exhibition to mark Tony Blair's Presidency of the European Union.
Mr Blair has faced criticism for borrowing famous works of art from public galleries to decorate Downing Street.
Now public funds have been spent on the huge painting - bizarrely named after a chemical secreted by fish to ward off shark attacks - to display in a private reception room used by the Prime Minister to ...