For sale: dead fish

A nice chap gave us this piece of “art” about 14 years ago. As I owned a fish-and-chip shop, I joked that it would be nice to have something like this for the store. Lo and behold, this cadaverous masterpiece arrived upon our doorstep two weeks later:

[photo: bloomberg.com]

So, if you’re in the market for dead animals suspended in formaldehyde that inspire slight nausea in your patrons, this piece is for you. Or, if you want to send someone a not-so-subtle message letting them know you hate them, this would undoubtedly make the perfect gift.

Opening bid: 100,000 pounds ($201,710 for you Yanks), as this is from the same artist responsible for such acclaimed pieces such as Away from the Flock (a dead sheep in a glass tank of formaldehyde), Mother and Child Divided (a cow and a calf sliced in half in a glass tank of formaldehyde), and The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (a tiger shark in a glass tank of formaldehyde). (Formaldehyde gets quite pricey, you know.)