Diamond-encrusted Human Skull, World's Most Expensive Skull at £50 Million
Thursday, January 10, 2008
At £50 Million, this 18th Century skull which thought to belong to a 35-year-old European who lived between 1720 and 1810 is the world's most expensive skull. Artist Damien Hirst encrusted the human skull with 8,601 jewels and a pear-shaped pink diamond in the skull's forehead.
Link via Spanish DancerhsThe artist said that he was inspired by an Aztec turquoise skull at the British Museum, and hopes that his work will eventually be displayed at the institution.
Other Hirst works which have also gone on display at the White Cube gallery in London include a painting of his son's birth by Caesarean section and a tiger shark cut in half and suspended in two tanks of formaldehyde.
Art expert Charles Dupplin from specialist insurer Hiscox called the skull "another bold move" from Hirst.
"This is a spectacular piece and undoubtedly the work with the highest intrinsic value in modern and contemporary art," he added.
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