In 1991, Charles Saatchi had offered to fund whatever artwork Damien Hirst wanted to make, and the result was showcased in 1992 in the first Young British Artists exhibition.
Damien Hirst's work was titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living and was a shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine, and sold for £50,000. The shark had been caught by a commissioned fisherman in Australia and had cost £6,000
The centre-piece, a Memento Mori titled For the Love of God, was a human skull recreated in platinum and adorned with 8,601 diamonds weighing a total of 1,106.18 carats. Approximately £15,000,000 worth of diamonds were used. It was modelled on an 18th century skull, but the only surviving human part of the original is the teeth. The asking price for, For the Love of God was £50,000,000Some of his other Conceptual artwork:
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