A £2.4 million sculpture by Damien Hirst has taken a dent. The Sphinx, a coral piece created by Hirst, above, in 2017, was ploughed into by a Rolls Royce, a police report reveals. The car knocked the piece, which is held in a private collection, off its pedestal before careering through a fence in Palm Beach, California. A damage assessment will follow soon.
The Sphinx is one of the cheaper Hirst pieces around. The Golden Calf sold for more than £10 million in 2008, a world record for the sale of a single piece of art. Hirst has said that For the Love Of God, his platinum skull cast studded with over 8,000 diamonds, was sold to a consortium for £50 million. This month, he began selling AI-generated paintings and NFTs starting at £1,200.
