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Article: So Damien, who did pay [pounds sterling]50m for your diamond skull? SKULL-DUGGERY? Damien Hirst with the For The Love Of God skull, whose value - and sale - is disputed by critics.
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- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2007
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Byline: Glen Owen, Polly Dunbar
IT WAS billed as the most expensive piece of contemporary art evercreated - a [pounds sterling]50million platinum skull covered with 8,601 diamonds.
But is Damien Hirst's dazzling creation, called For The Love Of God, all itmight seem? A growing number of art experts are challenging Hirst to prove hedid sell the skull last month for [pounds sterling]50million - the most ever paid for a work bya living artist.
To make the sculpture, Hirst took a cast of a skull belonging to a middle-agedEuropean man who died in the 18th or early 19th Century and studded it with thediamonds. It was claimed sourcing so many diamonds ...