Damien Hirst - Evening Editions London Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Paragon Press Contemporary Editions Ltd., p.88

  • Catalogue Essay

    Including:
    Throw it around; In the groove; Revolution; Twisted Insobriety; Twist; Spinning around; Spin spin sugar; Helter Skelter; Windmills of my mind; How to disappear completely; Catherine Wheel; Vortex; Follow my leader; Twist & Shout

  • 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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In A Spin, The Action of the World on Things Volume II

2002
The complete set of fourteen etchings in colours with original colophon on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper, with full margins,
all I. various sizes;
all S. 111.8 x 91.4 cm (44 x 35 7/8 in) (one horizontal)

all signed in pencil and numbered 20/68 in pencil on the colophon (there were also 6 artist's proofs), published by Paragon Press, London, all in excellent condition, all unframed, lacking the portfolio.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for £39,650

Evening Editions

27 February 2013
London