Hirst Oils Earning Millions Despite Critics’ Thrashing
Published: November 25, 2009
According to Tim Marlow, exhibitions director at White Cube, five of the seven largest works in "Nothing Matters" sold even before the show opened, with the most expensive of the lot going for £9.5 million ($15.7 million). Prices begin at £235,000. On display are a series of large-scale triptychs on which Hirst paints totemic objects (skeletons, ashtrays, medicine capsules, sharks’ maws) one by one and then links them together with a prismatic networks of lines to create a composition. The White Cube show runs through Jan. 20, 2010. |
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