Damien Hirst - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 4, 2022 | Phillips

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 4 March 2022

  • Provenance

    HENI, 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

8870 The Fountain and One Starlight, from The Currency

signed, signed with the artist's blindstamp, microdot, hallmark and hologram, numbered, inscribed and dated '8870. The fountain and one-starlight. 2016 Damien Hirst' on the reverse
enamel paint on handmade paper
21 x 30 cm (8 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
Executed in 2016, this work is a unique variant from an edition of 10,000 unique variants.

Estimate
£15,000 - 25,000 ♠

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 4 March 2022