Gavin Turk (1967 - )

Gavin Turk,  Cave, 1991

Gavin Turk,  Cave, 1991, Installation view of work submitted for MA Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and 'awarded' a fail.

Anthony Caro (1924 - 2013)

Anthony Caro, Month of May, 1963

Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972)

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy), 1942-52

Raoul Hausmann (1886 - 1971)

Raoul Hausmann, Mechanical Head (Spirit of the Age), c1920

Renato Bertelli (1900 - 1974)

Renato Bertelli, Profilo continuo del Duce (Continuous profile of Mussolini), 1933

Julian Opie (1958 - )

Julian Opie, H, 1987

‘I’m not going to be the one to tell ‘em it’s a ventilator’ (New Yorker, 27th December, 1947)

Joseph Cornell (1903 - 1972)

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (The Hotel Eden), c1945

Rachel Whiteread (1963 - )

Rachel Whiteread, Ghost, 1990

Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975)

Barbara Hepworth, Single Form (Memorial), 1961-4 (Commissioned for United Nations Plaza, New York - a memorial to UN secretary Dag Hammarskjöld who died in 1961)

Barbara Hepworth working on Single Form

Installation of Single Form in United Nations Plaza, New York

Unveiling ceremony for Single Form, United Nations, New York, 11 June 1964

Barry Flanagan (1941 - 2009)

Barry Flanagan, pile 3 '68, 1968

Richard Deacon (1949 - )

Richard Deacon, After, 1998

Julian Opie (1958 - )

Julian Opie, Postal Staff Return to Work, 1986

Tony Cragg (1949 - )

Tony Cragg, Stack, 1975

Antony Gormley (1950 - )

Antony Gormley, Bed, 1980-81 (Bread and parafin wax on aluminium panels)

Damien Hirst (1965 - )

Damien Hirst,  A Thousand Years, 1990

Glass, steel, rubber, MDF, Insect-O-Cutor, cow’s head, blood, flies, maggots

Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years, 1990 (detail)

Damien Hirst, A Thousand Years, 1990 (detail)

A Thousand Years was first shown in 'Gambler', a group show in 'Building One', a disused biscuit factory in Bermondsey, London, in July 1990; the exhibition was organised by Billee Sellman and Carl Freedman who had collaborated with Hirst to curate an earlier exhibition 'Modern Medicine' in the same location in March 1990.
The cataglogue for 'Gambler' includes the following text:

What's in the boxes?
Maggots.
So you're going to put maggots in the white boxes,  and then they hatch out and then they fly around...
Yes. And then they get killed by the fly killer, and maybe lay eggs in the cow's head.
It's a bit disgusting.
A bit. I don't think it is. I like it.
Do you think anyone will buy it?
I hope so.
What do I do with it if I buy it? Does it become a self contained eco system?
No the boxes get incinerated, and the heads. And you get new ones.
Would you expect anyone to use it?
I hope so.

A Thousand Years was bought by Charles Saatchi.

Sarah Lucas (1962 - )

Sarah Lucas, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992

Sarah Lucas, Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab, 1992

René Magritte, Le Viol (The Rape), 1945

Michael Landy (1963 - )

Michael Landy, Sovereign, 1988 (Work exhibited in Freeze)

Tracey Emin (1963 - )

Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998

(Sold at Christies for £2.2m, 1 July 2014)

Tracey Emin, My Bed, 1998 (detail)

Sherrie Levine (1947 - )

Sherrie Levine, Fountain (Madonna), 1991

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917 (1964 copy of lost original)

Daniel Buren (1938 - )

Daniel Buren, Sandwich Men, 1968