Damien Hirst - New Now New York Wednesday, September 28, 2022 | Phillips

New Now

New York Auction 28 September 2022

  • Provenance

    Heni Editions, London
    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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Damien Hirst

The Empresses

each signed "Damien Hirst" on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount
Laminated Giclée print on aluminum composite panel screen-printed with glitter, in 5 parts
each 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in. (100 x 100 cm)
Executed in 2022, this work is number 343 from the following editions:
(i) Wu Zetian (H10-1), an edition of 2,853.
(ii) Nūr Jahān (H10-2), an edition of 3,041.
(iii) Theodora (H10-3), an edition of 3,315.
(iv) Suiko (H10-4), an edition of 3,310.
(v) Taytu Betul (H10-5), an edition of 2,814.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $21,420

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 28 September 2022