Saturday, 2. June 2007
Topic: ART - on June 2, 2007 at 11:59:00 AM CEST
Artist unveils $98M diamond skull
Damien Hirst, former BritArt bad boy whose works infuriate and inspire in equal measure, did it again on Friday with a diamond-encrusted platinum cast of a human skull priced at a cool $98 million.
The skull, cast from a 35-year-old 18th-century European male, is coated with 8,601 diamonds, including a large pink diamond worth more than $8 million in the center of its forehead.
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