Year of damien hirsts first shark pieces

This shark is considered the iconic work of British art from the 1990s and has become a symbol of Britart worldwide. It was funded by Charles Saatchi who in 1991 offered to pay for whatever artwork the artist wanted to create. The shark itself cost Damien Hirst £6,000 and the total cost of the work was £50,000. In 2004 it was sold to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been $8 million but possibly up to $12 million. The shark was caught off Hervey Bay in Queensland, Australia, by a fisherman commissioned to do so. It was supposed to be something “big enough to eat you.”

Its technical specifications are: Tiger shark, glass, steel, 5% formaldehyde solution, 213 x 518 x 213 cm.

Created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, entitled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork that consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine.

Since the shark was initially preserved poorly, it began to deteriorate and the surrounding liquid grew murky. Hirst attributes some of the decay to the fact that the Saatchi Gallery added bleach to it. In 1993 the gallery gutted the shark and stretched its skin over a fiberglass mold, and Hirst commented:

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Damien Hirst's 1990s works actually built in 2017 claims new report

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Acclaimed and controversial British artist Damien Hirst is in deep water… or perhaps deep formaldehyde, as he has been accused of misrepresenting the dates he created famous artworks.

A Guardian investigation has found that artworks Hirst’s company had dated in the 1990s were actually made in 2017. The inquiry covered three of the artist’s works in preserving dead animals in formaldehyde – a dove, a shark, and two calves – were annotated to imply they were from his most notable era.

Hurst burst onto the art scene in the 90s and made a name for himself as part of the Young British Artists (YBAs) that brought an anarchic touch to the field. Much of his first famous works were of dead animals preserved in different states.

‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ from 1991 is perhaps his most well-known piece and features an entire tiger shark in a clear case filled with formaldehyde. In 1995, Hirst won the Turner Prize for his work.

In 2017, Hirst’s work was exhibited in Gagosian’s Hong Kong art gallery in a show called ‘Visual Candy and Natural History’ that was framed as an exhibition of his work “from the early to mid-1990s”. It was at this show that