Damien Hirst - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, October 11, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, Florida
    Christie's, New York, 11 November 2004, lot 366
    Private Collection, Singapore
    Private Collection, Europe
    Omer Tiroche Gallery, London
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2023

  • 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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Untitled (Birthday Card)

signed 'D Hirst' on the stretcher; signed, titled and dated ''Untitled (Birthday Card)' 1999 Damien Hirst' on the reverse
household gloss and butterflies on canvas
213.5 x 214.5 cm (84 x 84 1/2 in.)
Executed in 1999.

Estimate
£250,000 - 350,000 ‡♠

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 11 October 2024