Damien Hirst - New Now New York Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Bruno Brunett Fine Arts, Berlin
    Cohen Gallery, New York
    Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Berlin, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Making Beautiful Drawings, January 15 – February 5, 1994, n.p. (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Damien Hirst

    British • 1965

    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.

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53

beautiful lunatics spinning drawing (with breakaway edge)

signed "Damien Hirst" lower left and dated "93" lower right; inscribed "D.L" upper right; further titled "beautiful lunatics spinning drawing (with breakaway edge)" on the reverse
ink on paper
11 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. (29.5 x 20.6 cm.)
Executed in 1993.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $10,000

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Sam Mansour
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now Sale
New York
+1 212 940 1219
smansour@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 26 September 2018