An art auction organized by Sotheby’s, U2 front man Bono and artist Damien Hirst raised more than $42.5 million Valentine’s Day evening. The funds were donated to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Associated Press reports (ap.google.com, 2/15). The star-studded auction was held at the Gagosian Gallery in Manhattan.
The priciest piece auctioned was Hirst’s work entitled “Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way,” which sold for $7.15 million, the AP reports. The piece is a cabinet filled with painted antiretroviral pill bottles. Hirst was among 17 artists—including Howard Hodgkin, Keith Tyson and Marc Quinn—to donate work for the event.
Bono proclaimed in a Sotheby’s press release, “Tonight we got serious about love, and not just the love of art, but the love of our brothers and sisters suffering from AIDS in the poorest places on the planet.”
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