Damien Hirst - Faces Places: Online Auction Hong Kong Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Korea
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    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, now 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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For the Love of God: Laugh

signed ‘D.Hirst’ lower left quadrant; numbered '44/250' on the reverse
screenprint with glaze and diamond dust on paper
work 100 x 74.5 cm. (39 3/8 x 29 3/8 in.)
frame 124.5 x 99.4 cm. (49 x 39 1/8 in.)

Executed in 2007, this work is number 44 from an edition of 250.

Estimate
HK$65,000 - 85,000 
€7,700-10,000
$8,300-10,900

Sold for HK$81,900

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Hin Hin Wong
Associate Specialist, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
+852 2318 2013
hinhinwong@phillips.com

Faces Places: Online Auction

Online Auction 20 - 27 April 2022