Kate Moss, Tiziano Vecelli and John Major

[ewx]

Maybe it's just me but I think I'd much rather have sculptures than paintings, and even if you don't share my taste, at £1.5M per statue we could have over 60 solid gold Kate Mosses scattered around the country for the £100M required for two paintings.

You might vary the model a bit: I think a larger-than-life solid gold statue of Sir John Major would be a marvelous thing - both as a satire on his grey reputation and a tangible acknowledgment of his bit-part in this country's recent slew of Olympic gold medals.

Who would do you nominate for golden immortality?

Apparently gold costs around £14,000/kilo so the BBC's quoted value of £1.5M for a 50kg statue suggests that the sculptor's time is worth Kate Moss's weight in gold.

Comments

[simont]

suggests that the sculptor's time is worth Kate Moss's weight in gold

Perhaps you have to pay the sculptor at least as much money for completing the statue as their raw materials are worth, otherwise they just sell the raw materials on eBay and make more money :-)

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

Well, what you need is a sculptor whose good name as a sculptor is worth more to them than the gold (well, maybe you can factor in a discount for the inconvenience of skipping the country and the risk of getting caught). Those sculptors charge high prices, pretty much by definition.