"Damien Hirst's ""The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living"", consisted of which creature preserved in formaldehyde?"
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living shark, sold at Hirst's Sotheby's auction, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever", for £9.6 million (more than £3 million above its estimate). Hirst has made a miniature version of "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" for the Miniature Museum in the Netherlands. In this case he put a guppy in a box (10 × 3.5 × 5 centimetres) filled with formaldehyde. In 2003, under the title "A Dead Shark Isn't Art", the Stuckism International Gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display two years before Hirst's by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living is an artwork created in 1991 by Damien Hirst, an English artist and a leading member of the "Young British Artists" (or YBA). It consists of a tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine. It was originally commissioned in 1991 by Charles Saatchi, who sold it in 2004, to Steven A. Cohen for an undisclosed amount, widely reported to have been at least $8 million. However, the title of Don Thompson's book, "The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: