Damien Hirst - Editions & Works on Paper New York Wednesday, June 21, 2023 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023

  • Catalogue Essay

    This set of twelve plates features reproductions of paintings from Damien Hirst’s Superstition (2006) series, whose classical shapes and compositions take their inspiration from stained-glass church windows. The intricate paintings reference the spiritual symbolism of the butterfly, used by the ancient Greeks to depict Psyche, the soul, and in Christian imagery to signify the Resurrection. - Gagosian Gallery

  • 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

Superstition

2007
The complete set of 12 bone china plates, contained in the original presentation box with printed title.
all diameter 11 in. (27.9 cm)
Each with printed signature and numbered 6/250 on the underside, produced by Villeroy and Boch, Mettlach, Germany, published by Other Criteria and Gagosian Gallery, London.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $15,240

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023