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Diamond Skull 

(Damien Hirst) visit website

It took about eight and half thousand diamonds to completely cover the surface of the skull

Hirst's diamond creation is art's costliest work ever Compared with the epic works that have made his name - the shark in formaldehyde, the bisected cow - Damien Hirst's work in progress is a small, delicate object: a life-size human skull. Not just any skull, mind, but one cast in platinum and encased entirely in diamonds - some 8,500 in all. It will be the most expensive work of art ever created, costing between £8m and £10m. Unveiling his latest work exclusively to The Observer, Hirst said: We have been buying diamonds slowly and have worked out that it will take about eight and half thousand to completely cover the surface of the skull.

Category: painting, photo, sculpture, others  (art)
Rating: 9783
Number votes: 5749 (won: 2949 lost: 2800)
Rank: 1

The rating process of the last 5 battles:
rating result date opponent
9783 lost Sat Feb 04, 2012 07:08 PM here
9798 won Thu Feb 02, 2012 05:09 PM here
9781 lost Thu Feb 02, 2012 04:38 PM here
9797 won Thu Feb 02, 2012 10:10 AM here
9778 won Thu Feb 02, 2012 03:57 AM here
  
michael says: cool stuff
Guest says: In August 2007 sold for GBP 50 Mio or 38 Mio. The scull is covered by 8601 diamonds!
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