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letsdothis2 ago

A Damien Hirst original...

The week before, the influential Art Newspaper revealed that £100m-worth of Hirst art works remained unsold at his main dealers, White Cube in Hoxton

Founder of White Cube - Jay Jopling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Jopling

He is the founder of White Cube and an investor in Paddle8.

Jay Jopling is the son of Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, a Conservative politician who served for some time as Minister for Agriculture in the Conservative Government led by Margaret Thatcher.

As a university student, Jopling visited Manhattan, where he forged links with post-war American artists, encouraging them to donate works for the charity auction "New Art: New World." In the late 1980s, he formed a friendship with the artist Damien Hirst. Hirst had already sold a number of works to the influential collector Charles Saatchi, but Jopling enabled the artist to realise more ambitious projects, including the sculpture The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and more recently the diamond skull For the Love of God.

In May 1993 Jopling opened the original White Cube on the first floor of 44 Duke Street, St James, in West End. Since then White Cube has presented solo shows of such British artists as Darren Almond, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Runa Islam, Harland Miller, Marc Quinn, Sam Taylor-Wood, Gavin Turk, and Cerith Wyn Evans.

Andre Balazs and Jay Jopling

White Cube & Soho Beach House Party During Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

Nick Jones and Jay Jopling