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Damien Hirst
British • b. 1965
Biography
There is no other contemporary artist as maverick to the art market as Damien Hirst. Foremost among the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group of provocative artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in the late 1980s, Hirst ascended to stardom by making objects that shocked and appalled, and that possessed conceptual depth in both profound and prankish ways.
Regarded as Britain's most notorious living artist, Hirst has studded human skulls in diamonds and submerged sharks, sheep and other dead animals in custom vitrines of formaldehyde. In tandem with Cheyenne Westphal, now Chairman of Phillips, Hirst controversially staged an entire exhibition directly for auction with 2008's "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever," which collectively totalled £111 million ($198 million).
Hirst remains genre-defying and creates everything from sculpture, prints, works on paper and paintings to installation and objects. Another of his most celebrated series, the 'Pill Cabinets' present rows of intricate pills, cast individually in metal, plaster and resin, in sterilized glass and steel containers; Phillips New York showed the largest of these pieces ever exhibited in the United States, The Void, 2000, in May 2017.
Insights
Hirst's auction record for a single piece is The Golden Calf, which in 2008 sold for £10.3 million.
331 of Hirst's "Spot" paintings (of neatly colored dots) were exhibited at 11 Gagosian galleries in 8 cities across 3 continents.
His decade-in-the-making work, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, is a collection of near 200 "found" objects from a fictional shipwreck that debuted for the 2017 Venice Biennale at the Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi museums.
"You need a big ego to be an artist."
Recent Damien Hirst headlines, Powered by Articker
3 October 2023 | The Art Newspaper
Is Damien Hirst's Medusa dessert a delicious work of art?29 September 2023 | The Guardian
A Surprise Candidate Beat Damien Hirst As Last Year’s Bestselling Artist At Auction28 September 2023 | Observer
Gagosian Will Show Never-Before-Seen Damien Hirst Works at Frieze London28 September 2023 | FAD Magazine
Damien Hirst new paintings to be shown at Frieze by Gagosian21 September 2023 | Artnet
Read Candid Post-It Messages Written by Grimes, Damien Hirst, and Paul McCartney in Hans Ulrich Obrist’s New Book
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Damien Hirst
Five Antique Torsos
Estimate £300,000 - 500,000
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Fear
Estimate £300,000 - 400,000
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Damien Hirst
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
Estimate £300,000 - 500,000
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Damien Hirst
Beautiful Persephone Psychedelia Painting
Estimate £150,000 - 200,000
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Damien Hirst
Five works: (i) H10-1 Wu Zetian; (ii) H10-2 Nūr Jahān; (iii) H10-3 Theodora; (iv) H10-4 Suiko; (v) H10-5 Taytu Betul from the series The Empresses
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
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Past Lots
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Damien Hirst
Kill Monster
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $127,000
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Mescaline
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
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The Virtues (H. 9)
Estimate £60,000 - 80,000
Sold for £82,550
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The Empresses (H. 10)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £11,430
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Damien Hirst
Truth, from The Aspects (H6-5)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £12,065
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Goodness, from The Aspects (H6-4)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £19,050
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Benedictus Dominus, from Psalm Prints
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £17,780
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Beautiful Exotic Stretching Etchy Spinning Void Etching, from Stützmappe (Support Portfolio)
Estimate £1,000 - 1,500
Sold for £11,430
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Beautiful Hours Spin Painting
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £6,350
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For The Love of God
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £4,445
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The Hours Spin Skull
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
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Damien Hirst
Dissection Table with Tools
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000
Sold for £3,810
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Steak and Kidney, from The Last Supper
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £4,445
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Damien Hirst
4545 How You'll Be, from The Currency
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £7,620
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Claridges, from Colour Space (H5-4)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £6,350
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Café Royal, from Colour Space (H5-7)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
Sold for £8,890
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Plaza, from Colour Space (H5-6)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £5,334
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Justice, from The Virtues (H9-1)
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £12,700
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Politeness, from The Virtues (H9-4)
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £13,970
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Control, from The Virtues (H9-8)
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £13,970
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Damien Hirst
Colour Chart (Glitter) (H3)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £3,048
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5133. Will pass that time (from The Currency)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
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Mercy (from The Virtues series, H9-3)
Estimate HK$80,000 - 120,000
Sold for HK$101,600
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Taytu Betul, from The Empresses (H. 10-5)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,080
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