Hirst pickles Dunphy

By our contemporary art correspondent 
Phil Tank

In his most ambitious work to date, British contemporary artist Damien Hirst has pickled his business manager Frank Dunphy.

The work (right), entitled The Impossibility of Making Millions without a Bibulous Beancounter in Tow, features the besuited figure of the rotund Irish accountant suspended in a tank full of Jamesons Irish whisky.

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Asked how he had persuaded his long-time collaborator to take part in the radical artwork, the multi-millionaire taxidermist replied, "Frank's fond of the single malt, so we waited until he'd had a skinful, which is a regular occurrence, and then we dropped him in it while he was unconscious."

Dunphy has been credited with turning Hirst into the most bankable artist the world has ever known. The piece has been bought by a consortium of hedge fund managers for £100 billion.

Last month Hirst was banned from competing in the Beijing Olympics after several of his works failed a random drugs test.

Phil Tank

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