Kate Moss statue 'largest since ancient Egypt' - CNN.com

"The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt."

Gold goes for about $26,000 per kilo, so a 50kg statue is worth $1.3 million in metal value alone. Counting the artistic value: $1,300,000.14.

I'm confused about something. I have seen this statue billed elsewhere as life-size, but if so, how can it weigh only 110 pounds, the same as Moss herself? Solid gold is nearly twenty times heavier than the human body. 50kg of gold would have a volume of only 2587 cc. If formed into a cube, it would be about 14cm (five and a half inches) on each side. To illustrate further, four standard gold bars weigh about 120 pounds, about the same as this statue, and they would occupy only 7"x7.25"x3.5" if stacked two by two. Can one forge a life-size statue from only those four little gold bars? If so, this statue must be hollow and very thin, much like its subject.