View of East Country Yard Show with Anya Gallaccio | Anya Gallaccio's installation in foreground, 1990. In liaison with Hirst, Carl Freedman ( who had been friends with him in Leeds before Hirst moved to London and was helping to make Hirst's vitrines ) and Billee Sellman then curated two influential " warehouse " shows in 1990, Modern Medicine and Gambler, in a Bermondsey former factory they designated Building One.

Saatchi put on a series of shows called " Young British Artists " starting in 1992, when a noted exhibit was Damien Hirst's " shark " ( The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living ), which became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and the symbol of Britart worldwide.

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.

Hirst's first major international presentation was in the Venice Biennale in 1993 with the work, Mother and Child Divided, a cow and a calf cut into sections and exhibited in a series of separate vitrines.

He was subsequently prosecuted, at Hirst's wish, and was given two years ' probation.

In 2000, Hirst's sculpture Hymn ( which Saatchi had bought for a reported £ 1m ) was given pole position at the show Ant Noises ( an anagram of " sensation ") in the Saatchi Gallery.

On 24 May 2004, a fire in the Momart storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection, including 17 of Hirst's, although the sculpture Charity survived, as it was outside in the builder's yard.

In December 2004, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living was sold by Saatchi to American collector Steve Cohen, for $ 12 million (£ 6. 5 million ), in a deal negotiated by Hirst's New York agent, Gagosian.

* Sotheby's holds the world record for most expensive piece of contemporary art ever sold at auction, with Mark Rothko's quintessential 1950 White Center ( Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose ), which grossed $ 72. 8 million in May 2007 and was famously offered by David Rockefeller as well as the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist with Damien Hirst's " Lullaby Spring " pill cabinet, which grossed roughly $ 19 million in a June 2007 London sale.

Hirst's fame grew enough that King George III was intrigued and invited him to visit London.

The bowling attack was weaker: Hirst's age lessened his effectiveness with the ball, Major Booth was killed in the war, and Alonzo Drake died from illness in January 1919.

An introvert, he did not always get along with the more extrovert Hirst, possibly owing to mutual jealousy and some of Hirst's jocular comments, and was rarely pictured smiling.

He was one of the first bowlers to control the swing of the ball ; batsmen found it very difficult to counter this method and Hirst's bowling was subsequently far more successful.

Wisden noted: " For some time after his first season Hirst's career was one of steady progress rather than of brilliant achievement.

For Yorkshire, Hirst's loss of form was offset by the debut of Wilfred Rhodes, also from Kirkheaton, who took 154 wickets in his first season.

Wisden described Hirst as playing " a great game ", noted the coolness of his play under pressure and said that " Hirst's innings was in its way almost as remarkable as Jessop's ".

In 1912 Yorkshire regained the County Championship ; Hirst's form that season was not as good as in previous years, but he batted well before poor weather and a knee injury interrupted his cricket.

The college's most important match was the annual match against Harrow at Lord's, and during Hirst's tenure, the team were unbeaten in the fixture, winning the six matches that produced a definite result and drawing the remainder.

One of Hirst's most notable achievements as a coach was improving the bowling of George Macaulay to the point where he became a key member of the Yorkshire team.

A. Thompson, Hirst's development of swing bowling was almost as revolutionary as Bernard Bosanquet's invention of the googly.

Reputedly Hirst's eccentricity began when his betrothed died of smallpox after he rescued her from a flooding river.

A Thousand Years, one of Hirst's most provocative and engaging works, contains an actual life cycle.

Saatchi, said that most YBAs would proved " nothing but footnotes " in history, and sold works from his YBA collection, beginning in December 2004 with Hirst's iconic shark for nearly £ 7 million ( he had bought it for £ 50, 000 in 1991 ), followed by at least twelve other works by Hirst.

Hirst's batting continued to be more successful than his bowling, to the point where commentators regarded him as primarily a batsman, who bowled occasionally.

A combination of Hirst's technical knowledge, playing experience and empathy with young people made him a very successful coach.

In 2003, under the title A Dead Shark Isn't Art, the gallery exhibited a shark which had first been put on public display in 1989 ( two years before Damien Hirst's ) by Eddie Saunders in his Shoreditch shop, JD Electrical Supplies.

Damien Hirst's provocative 1990 artwork, titled A Thousand Years, featured a severed cow's head contained in a box with thousands of flies and a bug zapper, creating an entire life cycle within a glass box.

Key works include Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a shark preserved in formaldehyde in a vitrine, and Emin's My Bed, a dishevelled double bed surrounded by detritus.

Saatchi then visited Gambler in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

Saatchi became not only Hirst's main collector, but also the main sponsor for other YBAs – a fact openly acknowledged by Gavin Turk.

After Pinter's death on 24 December 2008, Gambon read Hirst's monologue selected by the playwright for Gambon to read at his funeral, held on 31 December 2008, during the cast's memorial remarks from the stage as well as at the funeral and also in Words and Music, transmitted on the BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2009.

This sold works by the two of them, including T-shirts and ash trays with Damien Hirst's picture stuck to the bottom.

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works.

The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £ 111 million ($ 198 million ), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £ 10. 3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.

In several instances since 1999, sources for certain of Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised, both in written articles by journalists and artists, and, in one instance, through legal proceedings which led to an out-of-court settlement.

Hirst's own contribution to the show consisted of a cluster of cardboard boxes painted with household paint.

Saatchi arrived at the second show in a green Rolls Royce and, according to Freedman, stood open-mouthed with astonishment in front of ( and then bought ) Hirst's first major " animal " installation, A Thousand Years, consisting of a large glass case containing maggots and flies feeding off a rotting cow's head.

In Hirst's version the collecting box is shown broken open and is empty.

At this time Hirst bought back 12 works from Saatchi ( a third of Saatchi's holdings of Hirst's early works ), through Jay Jopling, reportedly for more than £ 8 million.

MacHardie, a shrewd businessman, senses Alfred's drive and ambition, and when Alfred asserts that his goal in life is to earn more money than his father, MacHardie offers him a job in his investment firm.

While a scouting executive, Bartle also engaged in profitable business enterprises and made shrewd investment decisions.