£100 million Diamond Skull - Art Oddity

By A. Herrera "Cre8"
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This is something I have to add under Art Oddities. It is so intriguing to me that something so expensive can be so oddly real and yes someone obviously died but now certainly their death has not been in vein by having had an artist with very expensive taste and the ability to either come up with allot of money or allot of diamonds create such a magnificent piece of work from the skull of what is thought to have been a 35 year old European who was believed to have lived between 1720 and 1810.

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The Artist Damien Herst shown above cradling the skull in his arms after he covered it in 8,601 diamond pieces.

This certainly takes OOAK art to a whole new level. Who in the world, let alone their right mind would be able to create such magnificence again. First of all, how many 35 year old Europeans who have died way back in that era would have their skull laying around just waiting for the chance to be gilded in diamonds let alone have a whole new grill of platinum and diamonds created to replace every one of the teeth in their mouths to of course go along with all those diamonds in their skull!

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Above image showing the artist as he adorns the skull with the £12m-worth of diamonds that are said to be ethically sourced. Set in the forehead of the 18th century skull is a pear-shaped pink diamond.
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The expensive skull covered in diamonds was sold for £ 100 million.

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Unbelievable that the platinum teeth alone are said to be covered in £14m in platinum.