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World's Richest Artist Splits With World's Richest Gallery

World's Richest Artist Splits With World's Richest Gallery
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Deputy Enterprise Editor, Culture, HuffPost

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Artist Damien Hirst pictured in front of his work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark preserved in formaldehyde, at his retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.

Damien Hirst--the insanely wealthy British artist-provocateur famous for encasing a dead shark in formaldehyde--has severed ties with the well-heeled Gagosian Gallery, which represented him for the last 17 years. Hirst's abrupt and unexpected departure leaves him without gallery representation in New York City.

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