Damien Hirst Artwork Made of Thousands of Butterfly Wings Sells for 2 Million Pounds

Damien Hirst’s painting “I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds.” Image via UKauctionnews . An auction in London of work by a controversial British artist has fetched 2.2 million pounds for one strikingly beautiful, if subtly unsettling, piece — a 17-foot-wide, 7-foot-tall red-gloss canvas covered entirely with the wings of thousands of real butterflies …. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Damien Hirst Artwork Made of Thousands of Butterfly Wings Sells for 2 Million Pounds

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