London - (Cock-a-Doodle-Doo): In announcing the news London Mayor Boris Johnson shied away from naming the Tory colleague who had sat for the winning exhibit's creation.
"Let's just say that it's nobody from the House of Commons, heheheh!" Johnson hinted broadly, amid wishful thinking rumors the sculpture was some sort of self portrait.
Commissioning artist Katharina Fritsch is said to have worked from memory - from what contemporaries have described as a Last Tango In Paris moment on acid.
The choice of royal blue pigmentation is not unexpected given that's the color many external human organs turn when exposed to freezing temperatures.
The exhibit knocked off a lifesize bronze depiction of Battle of Britain hero pilot Douglas Bader from the fourth plinth top spot and will be erected in 2013.
