Provenance
Lazarides Inc., The Soho Auction, London; Haunch of Venison, London
Catalogue Essay
The present lot, a particularly vivid and expressive spin painting from art world superstar Damien Hirst, was donated by the artist for an auction entitled The Soho Auction organised by London dealer Steve Lazarides in October 2007. What is most interesting about this work is not its painted surface but the title which Hirst has assigned to it.The enfant terrible of British art taunts his audience with this seemingly interminable explicit rant.The title might begin with the word ‘Beautiful' and end with the word ‘Painting' like all his other spin paintings, but it is the fragmented slogans in between that give us a real insight into the mind of this perenial provocateur. Addressing an art world overloaded with constant auctions, fairs and openings, Hirst ironically, and somewhat apocalyptically given the current state of the market, asks where will it all end? He then boasts about how easy it is to make money from selling these paintings before urging us, albeit by swearing at us, to buy them because they reference artists such as the monochromatic French painter Yves Klein whose name Hirst misspells in the title. The kisses at the end are an affectionate personal touch.
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

Beautiful Lazarides Inc. Auction Spinny Thingy Where Will It All End, Money For Old Rope, Buy This You Bugger, Its Got Kline Blue Bloody Splashes In It For Fuck's Sake, Love You Really Painting (with xxxxx)

2007
Household gloss paint on canvas.
122 x 122 cm. (48 x 48 in).
Signed, titled and dated 'Damien Hirst 2007 Beautiful Lazarides Inc. Auction Spinny Thingy Where Will It All End, Money For Old Rope, Buy This You Bugger, Its Got Kline Blue Bloody Splashes In It For Fuck's Sake, Love You Really Painting (with xxxxx)' on the reverse.

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£100,000 - 150,000 ‡♠

Sold for £193,250

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Gert and Uwe Tobias
Untitled
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Sergej Jensen
Odd Couple
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Barry McGee
Untitled
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Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (large colored butterfly white background 10 wings)
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Wim Delvoye
Clio
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James Turrell
Acro, Blue
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Mario Merz
Senza titolo (Una somma reale è una somma di gente)
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Florian Maier-Aichen
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Roni Horn
Seen in the distance
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Andy Warhol
Five Guns
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Ed Ruscha
That Was Then This Is Now
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Richard Prince
Spiritual America IV
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Jack Goldstein
Untitled
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Thomas Schütte
Stahlfrau Nr. 7 (Steel Woman no. 7)
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John Chamberlain
Mr. Moto
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Robert Rauschenberg
Wolf Wood (Urban Bourbon series)
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Anselm Reyle
Untitled
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Jeff Koons
Mermaid Troll
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Zhang Xiaogang
Untitled
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Ed Ruscha
Doric
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Gerhard Richter
Schatten 6
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Wilhelm Sasnal
Cemetery
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Kehinde Wiley
Passing/Posing - St. Helena
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Robert Indiana
Art
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Yan Pei-Ming
Timonier 009
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Yoshitomo Nara
Your Dog
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Yue Minjun
Untitled
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Alighiero Boetti
Tutto
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Kenneth Noland
Shift
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Tal R
Fungusia
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Anselm Reyle
Untitled
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Feng Zhengjie
Chinese Portrait P Series 2006 No. 2
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Inka Essenhigh
Pegasus
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Michael Raedecker
ins and outs
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Wang Guangyi
Art Go
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Damien Hirst
Beautiful Lazarides Inc. Auction Spinny Thingy Where Will It All End, Money For Old Rope, Buy This You Bugger, Its Got Kline Blue Bloody Splashes In It For Fuck's Sake, Love You Really Painting (with xxxxx)
Estimate £100,000 - 150,000 ‡♠
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Jonathan Meese
Die Verschworung des Dr. Pottsau
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Jitish Kallat
Collidonthus
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Wim Delvoye
Cabinet (Installation of 14 Delft sawblades and 2 Delft gas canisters)
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Ashley Bickerton
Herr Schoendorff
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Provenance

Catalogue Essay

Artist Biography

Damien Hirst

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Beautiful Lazarides Inc. Auction Spinny Thingy Where Will It All End, Money For Old Rope, Buy This You Bugger, Its Got Kline Blue Bloody Splashes In It For Fuck's Sake, Love You Really Painting (with xxxxx)

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