Damien Hirst - 20th c. and Contemporary Art Day Sale - Afternoon Session New York Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | Phillips
    • Provenance

      Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)
      Gifted by the above to the present owner in 2002

    • Literature

      David Ross, A Pocket of Contemporary Artists, Victoria, 2007, p. 108 (illustrated)

    • 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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Beautiful high speed, head into the steering wheel impact painting

household gloss on canvas
diameter 84 in. (213.4 cm)
Executed in 1996.

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Estimate
$300,000 - 500,000 

Sold for $403,200

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Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York

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20th c. and Contemporary Art Day Sale - Afternoon Session

New York 8 December 2020