Some top prices for British artists

Artists represented by Jay Jopling Damien Hirst (b. 1965): £1 million for 'Hymn, based on £14.99 child's toy. Antony Gormley (b. 1950): £1 million asking price for 'Critical Mass', a group of

sculptural bodies moulded from his own.

Tracey Emin (b. 1963): her 'tent' sculpture has reputedly sold for £600,000.

Jake and Dinos Chapman (b. 1962 and 1966): their sculpture entitled 'F****** Hell, using 10,000 mutilated airfix figures, will be a highlight at Apocalypse, the Royal

Academy's autumn show, and is priced at £500,000.

Gilbert & George (b. 1943 and 1942), honorary YBAs, having just joined the Jopling

stable. Top price 'in the region of £500,000'.

Jenny Savile (b. 1971), a Saatchi rather than Jopling protegee; top prices at her New

York show: up to $150,000, making her the most expensive British artist under 30.

The rest Lucian Freud (b. 1922): $5.8 million auction record for a living British artist, for his

`Large Interior W11'

David Hockney (b. 1937): $2.2 million record for Sixties painting, 'A Grand Procession

of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian style'.

Leon Kossoff (b. 1926): top price at his current New York exhibition, £350,000.

Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924): according to his new gallery, Flowers East, he has com-

manded 'commissions in excess of £100,000'.

Allen Jones (b. 1937): leader of the British Pop art movement of the Sixties, and proud purveyor of the most expensive British work at last year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 'Believe it or Not, priced at £41,185.

John Keane (b. 1954): the top price for this veteran war artist's paintings is 125,000 for a

multiple portrait entitled 'Blinking Rupert Murdoch multiple portrait'.