Artist's Shit (Italian:
Merda d'artista) is a 1961 artwork by the Italian
artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90
tin cans, each reportedly filled with 30 grams (1.1 oz) of
faeces, and measuring 4.8 by 6.5 centimetres (1.9 in × 2.6 in), with a label in Italian, English, French, and German stating
"Artist's Shit
Contents 30 gr net
Freshly preserved
Produced and tinned
in May 1961"
A tin was sold for
€124,000 at
Sotheby's on May 23, 2007;
[5] in October 2008 tin 83 was offered for sale at Sotheby's with an estimate of
£50,000–70,000. It sold for £97,250. On October 16, 2015, tin 54 was sold at Christies for £182,500. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new record of €275,000, including auction fees.