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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Fourth Owner of Hirst Skull Outed

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As you may recall, shortly after unveiling Hirst’s For the Love of God in 2007, White  Cube Gallery reported that the $100 million diamond emblazoned skull had in fact sold to a private investment group for the initial asking price. It didn’t take long for details to surface – to date, Hirst, along with his business manager Frank Dunphy and White Cube’s Jay Jopling are the majority owners.

Now, The Art Newspaper reports that Russian billionaire Viktor Pinchuk was recently outed by the Washington Post as a fourth part-owner of the skull. No wonder he is currently hosting a major Hirst retrospective at his own Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev.

Posted by ATARMS | Filed in Artist Talk, Market Talk, Sculpture, Uncategorized


One Response to “Fourth Owner of Hirst Skull Outed”

  1. June 12th, 2009 at 6:16 pm

    Fourth Owner of Damien Hirst’s Diamond Skull Revealed - ANIMAL said:

    […] speculation is only reignited by news that the fourth part owner is Ukranian steel pipe billionaire Viktor Pinchuk. His eponymous Kiev museum […]



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