Rotting cows, spots and spin
13 April 2012
Hirst works in the Saatchi Gallery include:
- Medicine cabinets: display cases filled with empty bottles - worth an estimated £500,000
- The Prodigal Son: bisected calf in formaldehyde - £1m
- A Thousand Years: flies hatch from a cow's head, only to die a violent death by Insect-O-Cutor - up to £2 million
- This Little Pig Goes To Market, This Little Pig Stayed At Home: a pig sliced from nose to tail and preserved in formaldehyde - £750,000
- Mini: car decorated with his signature spots - £200,000
- Spin paintings: house paint flung on to spinning canvas - from £50,000 to £200,000
- Spot paintings: colour-spotted canvas with titles that refer to pharmaceutical chemicals - £25,000 to £150,000
