Damien Hirst - Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction New York Wednesday, September 6, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “I can’t understand why most people believe in medicine and don’t believe in art, without questioning either.”
    —Damien Hirst

    • Provenance

      Private Collection, New York

    • 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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Property from an Esteemed Collection

130

Pharmaceuticals

2005
Inkjet print in colors, on Somerset paper, with full margins.
I. 41 1/2 x 33 in. (105.4 x 83.8 cm)
S. 50 x 40 1/4 in. (127 x 102.2 cm)

Signed, titled, dated and numbered 9/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Other Criteria, London, framed.

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Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $12,700

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Editions & Works on Paper: Online Auction

6 - 13 September 2023