![]() ![]() Why would anyone even consider paying this much money for the shark? The question was important because $12m represented more money than had ever been paid for a work by a living artist, other than Jasper Johns – more than for a Gerhard Richter, a Robert Rauschenberg or a Lucian Freud. ![]() It had been caught in 1991 in Australia and prepared and mounted in England by technicians working under the direction of the artist Damien Hirst.Īnother concern was that, while the shark was certainly a novel artistic concept, many in the art world were uncertain as to whether it qualified as art. The 15ft tiger shark "sculpture" was mounted in a giant glass vitrine and creatively named The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living. Another was that it weighed just over two tons and was not going to be easy to carry home. ![]() One problem for the agent trying to sell the stuffed shark was the $12m asking price. ![]()
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