Property from a Private American Collection
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Damien Hirst
Five Antique Torsos
- Estimate
- £300,000 - 500,000‡♠
£317,500
Lot Details
bronze and Basalt, aluminium and steel plinth
incised with the artist’s signature, stamped with the foundry and Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable stamps, inscribed, numbered and dated ‘TM6-2 Damien Hirst 2/3 MMXI’ on the reverse of the central torso
left to right:
42.4 x 17.7 x 12.6 cm (16 3/4 x 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
46.3 x 19 x 14.8 cm (18 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
56.6 x 19 x 13.5 cm (22 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)
44.4 x 19 x 14.4 cm (17 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)
45.4 x 16.6 x 13.2 cm (17 7/8 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
plinth 75.2 x 133.4 x 43.5 cm (29 5/8 x 52 1/2 x 17 1/8 in.)
overall 131.8 x 133.4 x 43.5 cm (51 7/8 x 52 1/2 x 17 1/8 in.)
42.4 x 17.7 x 12.6 cm (16 3/4 x 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.)
46.3 x 19 x 14.8 cm (18 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 7/8 in.)
56.6 x 19 x 13.5 cm (22 1/4 x 7 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)
44.4 x 19 x 14.4 cm (17 1/2 x 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 in.)
45.4 x 16.6 x 13.2 cm (17 7/8 x 6 1/2 x 5 1/4 in.)
plinth 75.2 x 133.4 x 43.5 cm (29 5/8 x 52 1/2 x 17 1/8 in.)
overall 131.8 x 133.4 x 43.5 cm (51 7/8 x 52 1/2 x 17 1/8 in.)
Executed in 2011, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3 plus 2 artist’s proofs.
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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.