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how often do you hear the words "stuffed kittens in Victorian wedding dress" "lawsuit" and "Damion Hirst" together in one news article?
He may be best known for pickled sharks and bisected cows, but Damien Hirst's interest in stuffed kittens in Victorian wedding dress yesterday emerged as the focus of a bizarre high court action.
Four years ago a collection of stuffed animals, including the kittens as well as hamsters playing cricket and rabbits being taught how to read, was sold by the auctioneers Bonhams for more than £300,000. But on the day of the sale, Hirst wrote in the Guardian that he had been prepared to pay £1m for the collection, which had been exhibited for years at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, claiming it was a tragedy it was being split up.
Hirst said he would have kept the collection, created by the Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, together and added pieces of his own.
rest of article and pictures here
He may be best known for pickled sharks and bisected cows, but Damien Hirst's interest in stuffed kittens in Victorian wedding dress yesterday emerged as the focus of a bizarre high court action.
Four years ago a collection of stuffed animals, including the kittens as well as hamsters playing cricket and rabbits being taught how to read, was sold by the auctioneers Bonhams for more than £300,000. But on the day of the sale, Hirst wrote in the Guardian that he had been prepared to pay £1m for the collection, which had been exhibited for years at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, claiming it was a tragedy it was being split up.
Hirst said he would have kept the collection, created by the Victorian taxidermist Walter Potter, together and added pieces of his own.
rest of article and pictures here