A one-off Audi A1 created by artisit Damien Hirst has been sold at auction for £350,000.
The car was spin painted by the artist in his Gloucestershire studio and is fully driveable and road legal. The £350,000 raised at Sir Elton John’s annual charity ball will go to the singer's AIDS Foundation.
See the Audi A1 by Damien Hirst pics
The A1 was sold alongside a six-foot diameter canvas spin painting which Hirst created at the same time. The A1 project itself took around six months to complete.
The Audi A1 will reach UK showrooms in November.
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Re: One-off Audi A1 sells for £350k
Did Hirst actually paint the car himself? I doubt it. Like so many works by "installation" artists he'll have handed in a rendering on paper and left it to others. £350,000? You can fool some of the people some of the time. And the design is truly awful. It has no provenance. No one would know which artist had created it unless told. Still, at least the proceeds went to charity, but the same principle applies, his agent dare not allow it to lose his prescribed market value.
Re: One-off Audi A1 sells for £350k
Re: One-off Audi A1 sells for £350k