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Damien Hirst

The Empresses

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000
$21,420
Lot Details
Laminated Giclée print on aluminum composite panel screen-printed with glitter, in 5 parts
each signed "Damien Hirst" on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount
each 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm)
Executed in 2022, this work is number 343 from the following editions:
(i) Wu Zetian (H10-1), an edition of 2,853.
(ii) Nūr Jahān (H10-2), an edition of 3,041.
(iii) Theodora (H10-3), an edition of 3,315.
(iv) Suiko (H10-4), an edition of 3,310.
(v) Taytu Betul (H10-5), an edition of 2,814.

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, former 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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