![]() ![]() This reached a climax in September 2008 with the sale of more than 200 of his artworks at Sotheby’s for a total of $200m – on the same day that Lehman Brothers collapsed, sparking a global financial crisis. ![]() Hirst’s work – and the prices it sold for – became synonymous with the new wealth of the late 1990s and 2000s. A sliced cow and calf, and pickled sheep followed in quick succession, but Hirst’s twin obsession with death and publicity perhaps reached its apogee with his controversial 2007 platinum skull encrusted with diamonds, which he claimed sold for £50m. Hirst found fame in 1992 when his pickled tiger shark proved to be the centrepiece of the acclaimed Young British Artists exhibition at the Saatchi gallery. Damien Hirst has had this property for 17 years now, but it is still clad in scaffolding and tarpaulin, and as far as we can tell there is no restoration in sight.” “It is one of the biggest eyesores in the area. “We want to see what can be done, if anything at all,” said Toddington parish council’s chairman, Nigel Parker. This week the parish council will meet to come up with a plan that it hopes will force Hirst to finally make good on his promise to restore the property. Frustrated local residents in Toddington, 10 miles east of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, are now taking matters in their own hands.
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