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Damien Hirst
In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things volume II
- Estimate
- £15,000 - 20,000♠
£20,000
Lot Details
The complete set of 14 etchings in colours, with colophon, on Hahnemühle 350 gsm paper, with full margins, plus the accompanying photograph of the night sky,
2002
all I. various sizes
all S. 111.8 x 91.4 cm (44 x 35 7/8 in.) (one horizontal)
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), also signed on the photograph, published by The Paragon Press, London, all in excellent condition, all unframed, lacking the portfolio box.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
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
Literature
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.