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“I always say it’s about life, but I don’t know,
I suppose it does dwell on the dark side.”
—Damien HirstBringing together three of his most iconic motifs—dots, butterflies, and pharmaceutical pills—Damien Hirst’s Happiness, 2008, is a compact expression of the artist’s enduring fascination with the cycle of life and death. In contrast to the perfect geometry of some other works, Happiness presents a seemingly spontaneous arrangement of overlapping shapes and colors. Among the scattering of dots, butterflies, and pills, three empty syringes lay in parallel, pointing downwards.
The composition of the work, flat and lacquered, as if in a glass vitrine, recalls the Wunderkammer genre paintings that Hirst evokes in his medical cabinet series. The objects in Happiness reflect traditional Wunderkammer categories of art, nature, and science, represented in the dots, butterflies, and pills, respectively. But where a Wunderkammer painting presents a European gentleman’s idealized collection of natural and scientific specimens, the objects in Happiness are more akin to a collection of ideas.
Andrea Domenico Remps, Cabinet of Curiosities, c. 1699. Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence.
Image: Scala, Florence - courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali e del TurismoEach element in Happiness represents one of Hirst’s distinct approaches to the cycle of life and death. The dots evoke infinity and endlessness; the butterflies, the fragility of life; while the pills and downward-facing syringes serve as a gruesome reminder of the ultimate futility of modern medicine. Together, they explore the artist’s long-lasting source of inspiration – the meaning of life, and its relationship to, as the title indicates, happiness.
Provenance
Other Criteria, London
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Artnet Auctions, April 7, 2022, lot 136390
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present ownerExhibited
Hannover, Galerie Koch, Damien Hirst: The Wonder of you, Spots & More, April 23–May 21, 2016 (another example exhibited)
Literature
Nadia Herzog, “Damien Hirst Reflects upon the Relationship between Life and Death,” Widewalls, April 20, 2016, online (another example 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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Happiness
signed “Damien Hirst” lower center; stamped with the artist’s stamp on the overlap
syringes, needles, butterflies, paracetamol pills, synthetic resin, and household gloss on canvas
14 5/8 x 17 1/2 in. (37.1 x 44.5 cm)
Executed in 2008, this work is unique variant number 32 from an edition of 35, plus 5 artist's proofs and is registered in the Damien Hirst archive under the archive-no. DHS 11674.
Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $35,560
Nina Piro
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20th Century & Contemporary Art
New York Auction 18 July 2023
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Robert Nava
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The Fire Witch
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Dylan Kraus
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Matt Connors
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Damien Hirst
6252. I think I am
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Damien Hirst
Happiness
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Olafur Eliasson
Colour Vision Kaleidoscope
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Zhang Xiaogang
Young Girl No. 3
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Zaha Hadid
Z-stream
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Rodney Graham
Essence of Smoke
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Asli Özok
Dance
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Salvador Dalí
Moïse from the La Sainte Bible series
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George Condo
Untitled
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Raymond Pettibon
Untitled (Their eyes...)
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Raymond Pettibon
Untitled (Pure joy...)
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Nicole Eisenman
Girl Audience Baseball Game (#164)
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Emma Amos
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Louis Fratino
Cat's Face
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Austin Lee
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Jordy Kerwick
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Alex Katz
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Alex Katz
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Fairfield Porter
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Fairfield Porter
Study for "View"
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Milton Avery
Lone Animal
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Alighiero Boetti
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Grace Hartigan
Italian Comedy
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Perle Fine
Untitled from the Cool Series
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Betty Parsons
Untitled
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Aaron Curry
Dirty Rat Treehouse
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Adrián Villar Rojas
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Adam Parker Smith
Ludovisi Gaul
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Eduardo Basualdo
Damage is Done (El daño está hecho)
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Alex Gardner
Listened and Remembered
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Louise Bonnet
Untitled
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Sophie Larrimore
Finger Lakes
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Louis Fratino
Man and Dog
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102
Julian Pace
Self Portrait with Birds
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103
Austin Eddy
The Endlessness Of A Blue Star-Strewn Night.
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Jordy Kerwick
Untitled
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105
Will Boone
Dead Red
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106
Justin Liam O'Brien
Leaving Riis
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Jason Fox
I don't even know what okay is anymore
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108
Michael Vasquez
This is Ours – Minh
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109
Andy Dixon
Christie's (Lord Berners Faringdon House)
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110
Cyprien Gaillard
Untitled
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Rita Ackermann
Fire By Days XXVIII
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Jonathan Meese
Inspektor Spornbleuns Granulat
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113
Friedrich Kunath
A Brief History of Love
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114
Sam Friedman
Untitled
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Christian Rosa
Untitled
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Ida Ekblad
To drink a glass of melted snow
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $25,400
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Isshaq Ismail
Mood 11
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000 •
Sold for $12,700
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