Sentences with phrase «50m diamond skull»
As Damien Hirst dusts off his # 50m diamond skull in preparation for his Tate Modern retrospective this spring, a new generation of young British artists are working in a very different climate from the brash super-confidence of his 1990s heyday.
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This was before adman Charles Saatchi started buying up YBAs and decades before Damien Hirst claimed to have sold a diamond - encrusted skull for # 50m.
A decade after that, Hirst felt able to ask a cool # 50m ($ 100m) for a single work — a platinum skull encrusted with over 8,000 diamonds called For the Love of God (2007).
Damien Hirst has created a controversial new version of his # 50m diamond - encrusted skull.
Lucas represented Britain at last year's Venice Biennale; Hirst, having created the world's most expensive artwork with his # 50m diamond encrusted skull, has just opened his own museum; Wallinger, the Chapmans, Wearing, Emin, Gordon, Landy and Hume are often included in major exhibitions in Britain and abroad.
8601 flawless diamonds [Hirst's # 50m diamond - studded skull] notwithstanding, ours has never been a traditional marriage and I look forward to many more adventures to come.»
In an interview with the Radio Times, Hockney confirmed that he had in mind Damien Hirst, whose # 50m diamond and platinum skull will be the centrepiece of a Tate Modern exhibition in April, the first solo show of his work in a UK museum.