love this:
www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=159473375

Superb collection of work, anatomy of an angel has to be my favourite piece, for it's clean simplicty, oh to have a cool few million!!!

Awesome, thanks for posting gbh. I want one of those pickled Zebras, they are cute.

someone pass me the oxygen please, I can't breathe for laughter..
My mrs is also pissing herself right now..

I know, i struggle sometimes. I have got an open mind to all things and always have, also i like both contemporary and more trad. things including art although lean more towards contemporary, its just my view on this particular matter thats all. I like what i like but i am always willing to be educated in all things and learning something new is always fun. Dead animals in tanks i dont understand though im afraid.

not being rude/silly/whatever, but I think the proper term is contemporary.....

The sale looks like a Damien Hirst remastered 'Best Of' collection. Something for every one, at many different price levels. Have the feeling this will be a big indicator of the health/wealth of the contemporary marketplace.

In my dreams, I win 'After the Flood' and 'The Dream' and bring them home to sit next to 'St. Sebastian, Exquisite Pain' that I would have purchased from its current owner.

Exquisite Pain' that I would have recently acquired from George Michael.[/quote]

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you are a dirty, dirty man

so when can u go and view this stuff then ? im in london the 14th and would like to go see it, do they let any old scum in ? or will i have 2 break out the top hat and monacle ?

>>>have the feeling this will be a big indicator of the health/wealth of the contemporary marketplace.<<<

I'm not so sure. I just can't appreciate why any blue chip dealer would support this sale and they are usually a big component of the art buying market. It's counter to their long term business model yet Christie's and Sotheby's have more to gain potentially long term from this than anyone else including Hirst himself. So, while I expect this sale to be a smashing success because of the cynic in me, I wouldn't use it as any kind of barometer for the art market as a whole. Rather, I look at it as a HUGE opportunity for the auction houses to paint the tape in the hopes that they can lure other artists of Hirst's pricing caliber to follow in his footsteps.

I think that's the point with that piece - a real life representation of a well known/clichéd image.

It was on display at the White Cube for his show last year. I really, really like it - though not enough to have in my lounge. ;-)

The exhibition itself is in London for the 10 days prior to the evening sale. The large auction houses will often preview certain lots/highlights in other large cities (NY, LA, Paris, Amsterdam) for clients and to generate a buzz but the exhibition itself is always in the city of the sale.

any1 ? where and when ?

I have to say if I had a spare £60k to spend on a piece of art it would be hard to look past those small Hirst Butterfly Paintings.

Really loving the office chair in a enclosed case piece. Brilliant