The Sculpture That Didn't Melt Artist Marc Quinn casts his head every five years. The medium: nine pints of his own frozen blood. Charles Saatchi bought the 1991 original. A story spread that workers unplugged the freezer in 2002. That a decade of frozen blood quietly puddled away. But the tale is an urban myth — the piece survived and sold for £1.5m in 2005.
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