Police in London are investigating a warehouse fire thought to have destroyed a major swathe of British art history.
More than 100 works by leading contemporary artists are feared lost in the blaze, many of them belonging to millionaire art mogul Charles Saatchi.
"The building is still smouldering," said a police spokeswoman. "It is being treated as suspicious, as is routine, until such a time as we can get in there."
Among the art thought to have been destroyed are many key pieces of the BritArt genre, including "Hell" by the Chapman Brothers and Tracey Emin's tent entitled "Everyone I Ever Slept With From 1963 to 1995".
Saatchi's collection of contemporary art is one of the world's finest, including such iconic pieces as Damien Hirst's pickled sheep.
"I don't know what specific pieces have been lost," he told the Guardian. "So far it has been a day of many rumours."
Dinos Chapman told the Daily Telegraph he was certain "Hell", a tableau of dismembered German toy soldiers, had been destroyed.
"It has been burnt -- We have had it confirmed by two or three sources," he said. "We will just make it again. It is only art," he added.
The fire started early on Monday in the east London warehouse of Momart, one of the art world's leading experts in storage and transport.
The Telegraph said Chapman laughed when told of the possible loss of Emin's controversial "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With" -- a small tent embroidered with the names of everyone she had slept with, including her twin brother in the womb, parents and comatose friends, as well as lovers.