Most Expensive Work by Living Artist

[rkolinski]

For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead. Costing £14 million to produce, the work went on display at the White Cube gallery in London in an exhibition Beyond belief with an asking price of £50 million. This would have been the highest price ever paid for a single work by a living artist.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/21/arts.artsnews
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/artic...Florence/21934