Eternal and infinite universe: artwork

The Eternal and Infinite Universe (94) is the title of a painting by the artist Mark J Bridger of Oxford UK.
The oil painting on a wood panel includes a text with a theory of the universe (that it is infinite and eternal) which reasoned that the visible universe should be accelerating apart. It was painted in November 1994 and exhibited in the Jelly Leg'd Chicken Art Gallery, in Reading Berkshire, UK in January 1995 in a group exhibition called "the New Wave". With the artist's statement saying the text represented the ultimate understanding of the universe, the painting was priced at £7 million (not sold).
The theory in the painting - that the visible universe should be accelerating apart - seemed to affirmed by subsequent observations of supernovae type 1(a).
The same artist Mark J Bridger is notable for also in May 1994 adding some ink to a Damien Hirst sculpture "Away from the Flock", in the Serpentine gallery London, and re-titling it "Black Sheep"

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