He earned the moniker the ‘enfant horrible’ of the artwork world after dominating the business within the Nineteen Nineties together with his installations of useless sharks, sheep, and cows preserved in formaldehyde and went on to turn out to be Britain’s richest dwelling artist.
His platinum cranium encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds offered for £50million and he was inspired by his accountant to purchase a pied-a-terre within the metropolis after racking up a £65,000 lodge invoice at London’s Metropolitan Lodge.
Nevertheless, a gross sales brochure, revealed to promote Damien Hirst’s 77ft houseboat Signe Maria, has revealed that the 57-year-old Turner prize-winner doesn’t all the time have the golden contact.
His houseboat, which is adorned within the model of ‘a Ralph Lauren seashore hut with patina’ – quite than his notorious animal installations or spot, spin, or butterfly work – is being offered for a knockdown worth.
Turner prize successful artist Damien Hirst has put his houseboat up on the market
The 77ft houseboat Signe Maria is being offered for a knockdown worth
The artist paid £160,000 for the 77ft boat in 2006 and moored it on the Thames
The boat is believed to be underneath supply, and has been listed with agent River Houses for £80,000
Hirst and his clothier companion Maia Norman, mom of his three sons Connor, 27, Cassius, 22, and Cyrus, 17, paid £160,000 for the 77ft boat in 2006 and moored it on Chelsea Wharf because it was ‘the closest factor to the seashore in London’.
However the barge, which has two bedrooms and two bogs, and is believed to be underneath supply, has been listed with agent River Houses for £80,000 – half the unique worth earlier than renovation.
It’s not the primary loss that Hirst has confronted since his 2008 Stunning Inside My Head Eternally public sale at Sotheby’s raised £111 million.
Ten years later an evaluation of public sale costs for his works by Artnet, which lists public sale costs, discovered that every one however two of his 19 works which had been resold publicly had dropped in worth by a complete of £2.2million.
His 2008 cranium image Stunning Mider, which offered for £668,450 in 2008, was auctioned for £449,000 in 2018.
The boat has greater than sufficient room to entertain company in
And resulting from its Thames location provides spectacular views of town
Artnet’s Tim Schneider wrote on the time: ‘As an alternative of a formaldehyde tank, the very best fluid measure here’s a massacre. Is that this grim whole only a matter of some horrendous outcomes flattening the remainder of the group by affiliation? Particular person outcomes thunder again a loud “no”.’
Signe Maria started life within the Nineteen Forties as a customized dock barge designed by Vickins. After Hirst purchased the yacht, Norman was entrusted with its ornament, hiring designer Mike Rundell to offer it a radical makeover.
He redesigned the boat in a prosaic duck egg blue, put in underfloor heating, insulated its tongue-and-groove partitions, and adorned it with stripy rugs, vibrant cushions, and Mexican artefacts.
The couple separated in 2012 and Hirst now lives together with his girlfriend Sophie Cannell, 28 years his junior, and their three French bulldogs, Pablo, Chapo and Blanco, at his £36million 14-bedroom dwelling in Regent’s Park.
Final 12 months Hirst fell foul of animal rights activists who complained that his set up A Hundred Years infringed the precise of bugs. The paintings was faraway from show on the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, in Germany, after Individuals for the Moral Therapy of Animals (Peta) objected to its therapy of flies.
Hirst didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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