Maths adds up for teacher
Published on: 27-Dec-2007
A maths teacher certainly got his sums rights when a £60 purchase of raffle tickets won him a signed and dated original Damien Hirst sketch.Mohammed Khan won the picture after he bought 60 £1 tickets in the "win a Damien Hirst" raffle organised by Leeds City Art Gallery to raise funds for Heart Research UK.
The organiser of the raffle, Dr Jeffrey Sherwin, an honorary alderman of Leeds, said it "captured the public's imagination" and ended up making £6,000 for the charity.
Mr Khan, 37, said that he went to the gallery regularly on Sundays with his nephew and thought the raffle would be worth a punt.
"It was for a good cause and the prize was certainly worth it," he told the Yorkshire Evening Post newspaper.
He added that he hoped he could leave the sketch, which depicts a skull and a shark, on display at the gallery so people could see it while he made up his mind what to do with his prize.
Damien Hirst is one of the country's foremost contemporary artist and first came to prominence when he won the Turner Prize for his bisected cow creation.
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