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Damien Hirst
In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things, Volume I
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- £30,000 - 50,000‡♠
£25,400
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The complete set of 23 etchings in colours, on Hahnemühle paper, with full margins, the sheets loose (as issued), all contained in the original portfolio with a unique spin painting in household paint and screenprinted title in gold on the cover.
2002
all I. various sizes
all S. 90.8 x 70.8 cm (35 3/4 x 27 7/8 in.)
portfolio 97.2 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm (38 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 7/8 in.)
all S. 90.8 x 70.8 cm (35 3/4 x 27 7/8 in.)
portfolio 97.2 x 75.6 x 2.5 cm (38 1/4 x 29 3/4 x 7/8 in.)
All etchings signed in pencil, numbered '15' in pencil on the colophon, from the edition of 68 (there were also 12 artist's proof sets), published by The Paragon Press, London, all unframed.
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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.