Damien Hirst - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Re-Object Mythos portfolio was published on the occasion of two exhibitions at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2007. The exhibitions Re-Object and Mythos focused on two fundamental concepts of today's artistic practice, the object and the myth.

    The portfolio cosists of 8 prints by Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Duchamp, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Merz, and Cy Twombly.

  • 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

Untitled, from Re-Object Mythos

2007
Etching in colours, on Hahnemühle Rag paper, with full margins,
I. 74 x 54.5 cm (29 1/8 x 21 1/2 in.); S. 81.3 x 61.1 cm (32 x 24 in.)
signed and numbered 32/45 in pencil, published by Schellmann Editions and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria, in excellent condition, unframed.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 ♠

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Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm