Damien Hirst Napkin Doodle Sells for $37,000

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed)
Nov 15th 2007 at 9:04AM

I guess it should be no surprise that the most expensive living artist has very valuable doodles. This was proven recently when Damien Hirst did a little ink sketch on a linen napkin from The Ivy restaurant. It's a depiction of his diamond-encrusted skull, plus a couple of steaming coffee cups in the eye sockets and, of course, the all-important Hirst signature. He donated the sketch to MacMillan Cancer Relief's "coffee art" auction, where it sold to a private collector for £18,000.

So do you think it was really just a doodle? Or a creative way to come up with something for the auction?

Via Lussorian

Tags: Damien Hirst, DamienHirst, Hirst, most expensive, most expensive living artist, MostExpensive, MostExpensiveLivingArtist, napkin, skull

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Alex Nov 15th 2007 10:38AM

wow... i can totally see how this went down... damien, sitting at a $50/drink lounge suddenly realized that buying 5 rounds for everyone left him a tad short on cash... "no worries" he though and quickly doodled a piece of shit on a napkin, raised it in the air proclaiming "one of a kind damien hirst, signed, starts at $15k".