How does this artwork elucidate its Variants?
Hirst has made other works subsequently which also feature a preserved shark in formaldehyde in a vitrine: The Immortal (a great white shark, 2005), Wrath of God (2005), Death Explained (the shark is split in two, lengthwise, 2007), Death Denied (2008), The Kingdom (2008) and Leviathan (a basking shark, 2010).In September 2008, The Kingdom, a tiger shark, sold at Hirst's Sotheby's auction, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, for £9.6 million (more than £3 million above its estimate).Hirst has made a miniature version of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living for the Miniature Museum in the Netherlands. In this case, he put a guppy in a box (10 × 3.5 × 5 centimetres) filled with formaldehyde.He also presented a number of other animals preserved in formaldehyde, including: a cow and a calf (Mother and Child (Divided)), a sheep (Away from the Flock), an 18-month old calf with the disk of the Egyptian goddess Hathor between its 18-carat gold horns (The Golden Calf), and a dove in flight (The Incomplete Truth).
guppy formaldehyde vitrine Sotheby's tiger shark Beautiful Inside My Head Forever Miniature Museum £