The cost of a Dutch work of art featuring a stuffed cat crossed with a helicopter has gone through the roof following worldwide media attention, the Volkskrant reports on Wednesday.

Bart Jansen, who stuffed his pet cat Orville after it was run over by a car, had originally put a €12,500 price tag on the piece, which was on display in Amsterdam as part of the KunstRai art fair.
‘The work has not yet been sold but we have an offer of €100,000 on the table,’ Jansen’s dealer Geoffrey van Vugt told the paper.
Tradition
The paper points out Jansen is the latest in a long line of artists who have used dead animals in art, from Robert Rauschenberg to Damien Hirst and Thomas Grunfeld.
Nevertheless the project has been heavily criticised by animal lovers. The RAI exhibition centre has been painted with ‘kill the animal killers’ graffitti and the animal welfare party PvdD says it is writing to the art fair organisers in protest.
Last year, Dutch conceptual artist known as Tinkebell was found not guilty of animal cruelty for an exhibit featuring 95 hamsters in exercise balls. She had earlier caused outrage for killing her ‘depressed’ pet cat and turning it into a handbag.
The Volkskrant says Jansen decided to turn Orville into an aircraft because the cat and his brother Wilbur had been named after the pioneering Wright brothers. Wilbur is still alive.