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If Mr Hirst were managing a quoted company, he would be unable to enrich himself at the expense of his investors in quite the same way.

Dressed fashionably in black, with rings on his fingers and shades on his nose, Mr Hirst is an impish figure with a strong streak of humour.

Hirst said the tooth, believed to be a child's incisor, may have come from incidents he had at school.

Mr Hirst is as famous for being rich and famous as he is for his art, which may be part of his appeal.

In London Mr Hirst presides over two large industrial units producing the butterfly-wing pictures and his photo-realist paintings.

Despite his thousands of creations Mr McHugh, of Birkenhead, Merseyside, refuses to think of himself as the next Damien Hirst.

If Damien Hirst were to undertake a self-portrait in formaldehyde, I would be the first to subscribe to a commission.

Nothing could be further from Mr Hirst's risk-loving manner and his desire to offer work at a range of different prices.

Hirst's letters to a former girlfriend are mawkish in places, and he proves oddly unprofessional when faced with a pretty woman.

This sale was full of primary material straight out of Mr Hirst's studio, some of it not yet dry.

"The evidence is that he's capable of composing entire paragraphs in his head, " says Hirst.

It is hard to think of two writers better qualified to unpick Lebanon's complexities than David Hirst and Michael Young.

Although Mr Hirst and Mr Dunphy had been working on this auction for 18 months, remarkably nothing leaked out before they were ready.

It is one of the 100 works that will be shown in the Hirst retrospective, which opens at Mr Pinchuk's Art Centre in Kiev next month.

Mr Hirst had a very small share in the venture, but he provided the paintings that hung on its walls and designed all its fixtures .

The changing shape and contents of these pieces are the most intriguing evolutionary thread in Mr Hirst's work.

Mr Hirst is flooding the market, but he hopes his prices will rise, thereby challenging one of the basic laws of economics.

Mr Hirst is also discussing with the Tate a retrospective show to coincide with the Olympic games in London in 2012.

Damien Hirst , contemporary artist in the UK has sparked controversy by using a baby's skull in the creation of his latest art work .

Damien Hirst was born in Bristol, 1965 and grew up in Leeds, in the North of England.

Great efforts have been made to stretch the Hirst brand to reach (nearly) every pocket.

Mr Hirst said his search for so many high-quality diamonds in such a short space of time affected the market.

Mr Hirst should repair his relationship with his collectors and concentrate on his retrospective.

Most of the reviews have been ruthless: "The Worst of Hirst" and "Hirst, Renaissance man, obviously not" .

As the art market soared, Mr Dunphy, Mr Hirst and Sotheby's Mr Barker kept returning to the idea of repeating the Pharmacy sale.

Mr Hirst is, of course, not the first artist to give his dealers the finger.

In 1992 we thought there was a good chance we would get David Hirst and then we tried for Alan Shearer.

And there is always that dream, however unlikely, that a work acquired on a whim will increase in value to Hirstian heights.

Sally Russell, the founder of the parenting group Netmums, said Hirst's action is offensive to parents of the infant.

According to Frank Dunphy, Mr Hirst's business manager at the time, the galleries that represent him were very unhappy.

Hirst is a former soldier traumatised during a stint working as a mercenary in Yugoslavia.

Hirst has had extensive international visibility as Britain's most influential artist.

His collection includes Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Gilbert &George.

But Mr Hirst is an artist and, in Western countries, artists are valued as rule-breaking rogues.

Steven Cohen, an American hedge-fund billionaire, also owns works by Warhol, Mr Hirst and Mr Koons.

Terrified, he hands them a priceless Damien Hirst-style diamond-encrusted skull.

Nevertheless, The Hirst brand, not unlike Picasso or Pixar, is deemed creative.

October may produce scenes of rare frenzy at the Wallace Collection when an exhibition of 25 oils by Damien Hirst opens.

Daniela Gareh, White Cube's sales director, confirms that it sold to first-time Hirst buyers from Korea, Taiwan and mainland China.

Hirst opened his first show in Mexico on Thursday, titled Mors Dei (The death of God in Latin).

Here Hirst reminds the viewer of the transience of life.

"So he has realized that he's not a confessional autobiographer, " says Hirst.

The collapse in the Hirst market can partly be ascribed to the recession.

Some speculate that Mr Hirst enjoyed a cut of the buyer's premium (in addition to the hammer price).

A small shop next door to Sotheby's will start selling Hirst prints shortly after the sale on September 15th.

Two developments could help Mr Hirst's secondary market.

All these activities have made Mr Hirst a wealthy man.

Mr Hirst, already rich and famous, became richer and more famous.

Many wealthy people, for example, find Damien Hirst a brilliantly creative artist whose work is worth the millions they pay for it.

"The Mugrabis rarely buy directly from me, " says Mr Hirst. "We can never work out a deal because they want such fierce prices. "

British artist Damien Hirst's 'Controlled Substances Key Painting, ' didn't fetch bids but went to an absentee bidder for HK$9. 2 million.

By the time all three volumes are available, Mr. Hirst said, "about half will not have ever been in print before. "

"I want artists in the future to think I'm cool, " says Mr Hirst.

The average auction price for a Hirst work in 2008 was $831, 000. So far in 2010 it is down to $136, 000.

"Who is Conrad Hirst? " is a dark, clever book and its author a talent to watch.

The average auction price for a Hirst work in 2008 was $831, 000.

But Hirst's explorations of mortality, suggest Adrian Searle, pale beside the likes of Bacon and Giacometti

Bones and human heads are a reoccurring motif in Hirst's work: pictured here is a detail from Floating Skull (2006)

Repellent effects of the alcohol extracts of 25 tropical plants to Oligonychus biharensis Hirst