Monday, September 10, 2007

Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back Into The Museum




'Damien Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 (see below), was first shown in the Saatchi Gallery and later nominated for the Turner Prize. The work features a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde.

It was sold for nearly £7million in January 2005.'

Image courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery ("The Little Artists").




Damien Hirst - The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991