A 40-foot-long T-Rex skeleton nicknamed Shen (a Chinese word for ‘Godlike’) was set to be offered later this month for sale by Christie’s in Hong Kong, with an upper estimate of $25 million (£21.2 million) – until news broke earlier this week that the lot had been withdrawn. One might say the sale had gone extinct. Though the primary market for dinosaurs has historically been museums, the craze for dinosaur skeletons amongst the super-rich gained momentum in the wake of the…
Jurassic Art: why a dinosaur skeleton is the latest status symbol for your gallery
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