British artist Damien Hirst sold his sculpture of a diamond-encrusted skull worth $100 million, an all time high price for a piece of work sold by a single living artist, the London gallery said Thursday.

Hirst named the unique piece of art, "For the Love of God." The masterpiece is a skull cast in platinum with 8,601 diamonds. When the original skull was subjected to carbon dating for authenticity, it was found that his model dated back to the 18th century.

Some of Hirst's well known and equally controversial works includes a shark and a cow inside glass tanks with formaldehyde.

A spokeswoman with the London White Cube gallery said that the diamond-encrusted skull has been on display since early this summer and was sold to anonymous group of investors.