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Lot 23: SOLD 'A penny for your thoughts' by Jane Morgan

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This work considers the idiom “A Penny for your Thoughts” and encourages contemplation and debate on the subject of global conservation.

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Lot 55: SOLD 'Metropolis' by Rob & Nick Carter

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In ‘Metropolis’ we responded to the unique shape of the egg with a spectrum of coloured neon, which acts as both an agent of protection and one of entrancement. 

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Lot 60: SOLD 'The Embryo of Human Greed' by Wooden Horse

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This egg lies on its side as if wounded, scarred by the marks that have eaten into its very core. This piece, created by Wooden Horse London, was created to portray how a thought or process can eat away at something truly beautiful in an irreversible fashion. It helps to show how we can only truly appreciate ...

Lot 64: SOLD 'Egg' by Marc Quinn

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The egg is the beginning of the world. Here the fingerprints of a man and woman are merged into the creation of that new world.

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Lot 88: SOLD 'Dichotomy' by Zaha Hadid

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The design evokes an exquisite degree of unfamiliarity from within the formal simplicity of this most recognizable of organic structures; a structured composition of fluidity that reinvents the equilibrium between solid and void. The dynamic curvilinear geometries invite further investigation to reveal ...

Lot 104: SOLD 'Resurrection' by Polly Morgan

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The yolk, that provides nourishment to the young chick, is no longer needed when that chick is dead. So I turned it into a balloon, a giant lung, to lift the body heavenwards.

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Lot 127: SOLD 'The Golden Speckled Egg' by William, Suzue Curley & Team

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We have created a contemporary and stylish chocolate egg. But for all its beauty we've not compromised on flavour and made it with the finest chocolate we could find - Amadei chocolate from the Chuao region of Venezuela, famous for being the best chocolate in the world! As the name suggests, we've aptly ...

Lot 151: SOLD 'Life is Beautiful' by Mr Brainwash

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"Life is beautiful”.

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About the artist

Mr. Brainwash is the moniker of Los Angeles-based filmmaker and pop artist ...

Lot 196: SOLD 'ON / OEUF' by Oliver Clegg

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This lot was sold at auction for £17000.00

As the big egg hunt is quite a fun project in its entirety, I wanted to make a piece that was playful not only in the concept but also in the form. This is firstly why I chose not to use the standard fibre glass egg that each artist had been allocated, and instead have the same form remodelled in Perspex, ...

Lot 57: 'Untitled' by Chapman Brothers

 
Final bid: £25000
Increment: £1000
Bids: 23
Ends in: 2012-04-09 18:00:00 ( bidding ended )

PRIVATE SITTING

In support of The Big Egg Hunt and the two charities, Jake and Dinos Chapman, two of today’s leading artists, have agreed to paint a portrait of one lucky online bidder as Humpty Dumpty.

The highest bidder, and winner, will sit for the brothers in their studio as they create this one off, ...