Art Hustler Hirst Bags $198m at Auction

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Sep 16th, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Financial News, Politics & Economics

Global markets plunged this week as major US financials succumbed to the credit crisis.

Likewise, British artist, Damien Hirst was able to quickly separate “investors” from their money… peddling pickled animals and manufactured diamonds at record prices.

He smashed a single day record previously set by Pablo Picasso of $20M back in 1983.

Read on at CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/16/hirst.auction.art.ap/index.html

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