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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Maeve McClenaghan

Damien Hirst formaldehyde animal works dated to 1990s were made in 2017

Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst pictured in November 2017 in front of Myth Explored, Explained, Exploded at the Gagosian in Hong Kong. Photograph: South China Morning Post/Getty Images

Three Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the Guardian has found.

The trio of works, made by preserving a dove, a shark and two calves, have in recent years been exhibited in galleries in Hong Kong, New York, Munich, London and Oxford as examples of works from the 1990s, his Turner prize-winning period.

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