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Article: Here's one we made earlier ... a Damien Hirst in all but name
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- February 17, 2008
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DAMIEN HIRST'S medicine cabinets have sold for millions and
helped him become the world's most successful living artist.
He enjoyed more adulation in New York on Thursday after Where
There's a Will There's a Way, his steel pill cabinet, fetched $7.15
million ( pounds 3.6 million) at a star-studded charity auction. A
week earlier, Locanda Locatelli, another medicine cabinet, sold at
Christie's in London for pounds 350,000. A similar item last year
sold for a record pounds 9.6 million.
Now, however, an experiment by The Sunday Telegraph suggests
that, without the name Damien Hirst attached, his "works of art"
might sell for the decidedly more modest price of pounds 1.