I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a painter was the best one to be, because my heroes were Goya and Francis Bacon.

99 each. Modern art experts never learn. In its now fixed form the work is held by the Yale Center for British Art and is on regular exhibit there.

Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist entrepreneur and art collector. In September 2008 he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show Beautiful Inside My Head Forever at Sotheby's by auction and by-passing his long-standing galleries. 3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine (clear display case) became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s and the symbol of Britart worldwide.