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Damien Hirst
In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things, Volumes I; and II
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- $80,000 - 120,000
Lot Details
The complete sets of volumes I and II, including 23 etchings in colors (vol. I) and 14 etchings in colors (vol. II), on Hahnmühle paper, with full margins, all contained in the original portfolios for each volume with unique spin paintings in household paint and screenprinted titles in gold on the covers respectively.
2002
Volume I
all I. various sizes
all S. 35 3/4 x 27 7/8 in. (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
portfolio 38 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 1 in. (97.2 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm)
Volume II
all I. various sizes
all S. 43 3/8 x 35 3/4 in. (110.2 x 90.8 cm)
portfolio 43 3/8 x 35 3/4 x 1 in. (110.2 x 90.8 x 2.5 cm)
all I. various sizes
all S. 35 3/4 x 27 7/8 in. (90.8 x 70.8 cm)
portfolio 38 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 1 in. (97.2 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm)
Volume II
all I. various sizes
all S. 43 3/8 x 35 3/4 in. (110.2 x 90.8 cm)
portfolio 43 3/8 x 35 3/4 x 1 in. (110.2 x 90.8 x 2.5 cm)
All the etchings signed in pencil, both portfolios numbered '15' in pencil on the colophons of vol. I and vol. II, the editions were both 68 (there were also 6 proof portfolios for each volume), published by The Paragon Press, London.
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Damien Hirst
British | 1965There 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.
Browse ArtistRegarded 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.