Damien Hirst - Wired: Online Auction London Tuesday, October 25, 2022 | Phillips
  • 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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Earth, from The Elements (H6-6)

signed 'Damien Hirst' on a label affixed to the reverse; signed and numbered 'Damien Hirst 59/60' on the reverse
Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel
100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
Executed in 2020, this work is number 59 from an edition of 60 plus 10 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£7,000 - 10,000 

Sold for £8,190

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Louise Simpson
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Wired: Online Auction

Online Auction 25 October - 1 November 2022