Which British artist in 1981, made a frozen sculpture of his head using 4.25 litres of his own blood collected over a period of five months? (No useless response)
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The art world was last night trying to establish whether builders had accidentally defrosted a seminal piece of Britart by unplugging collector Charles Saatchi's kitchen freezer.
Rumours spread after suggestions that Saatchi had stored a blood sculpture made by Britart's enfant terrible, Marc Quinn, among his frozen peas. The work, Self, consists of Quinn's head cast in nine pints of his own frozen, congealed blood.
Builders who arrived to extend Saatchi's London kitchen at the request of his partner, the television chef, Nigella Lawson, are said to have unplugged the appliances to find red liquid oozing across the floor.
Saatchi declined to comment last night. Some art world insiders were sceptical, arguing the blood head was always exhibited in its own refrigeration unit. Saatchi bought the piece for a rumoured £13,000 in 1991 from art dealer Jay Jopling, who said the "very fragile" sculpture "requires quite a bit of commitment on the part of the collector".