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The day I sold my destroyed piano to the Tate

11 March 2023

9:00 AM

11 March 2023

9:00 AM

One day in October 1966 I came home from school and found a large man stripped to the waist, attacking the family piano with a woodman’s axe. Seeing the anxious look on my face, my father assured me there was nothing to be afraid of. The axe-wielding man was, he explained, an ‘artist’ who was ‘creating a work of art’.

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