When the artists Jake and Dinos Chapman bought a series of paintings by
Adolf Hitler for £115,000, many questioned the morality of paying for
works produced by one of history's most brutal dictators. Yesterday, the
brothers unveiled 13 of the watercolours, on which they had added
psychedelic rainbows, stars and love hearts, and placed them back on the
market for £685,000.
The Chapmans also unveiled a swastika-shaped sculpture of epic scale,
based on Hell, a work destroyed by a 'mysterious' fire in east
London in 2004 which was bought by Charles Saatchi for a reported
£500,000. Their latest work features hundreds of miniature Nazi soldiers
carrying out acts of mass torture and cadavers hanging off trees.
Naturally everyone says 'It's pure genius'.