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Damien Hirst
Pharmacy; Home Sweet Home; and Opium
- Estimate
- $5,000 - 7,000
$6,250
Lot Details
Three works, including one offset lithograph in colors, one screenprint in colors, and one gloss-finish Lamda print in colors, on 4-ply board with cut-out, porcelain plate, and Fujicolor Professional paper respectively, the full sheets,
1992 and 1996
pharmacy S. 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (21.6 x 21.6 cm)
home diameter 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
opium S. 19 x 17 in. (48.3 x 43.2 cm)
home diameter 8 1/4 in. (21 cm)
opium S. 19 x 17 in. (48.3 x 43.2 cm)
pharmacy signed and numbered 115/200 in black ink, home numbered 1240/1500 on the reverse, and opium signed on the front and numbered 10/500 in black ink (faded) on the reverse, published by Sid Powell for Gagosian Gallery and Eyestorm, London respectively, all framed.
Specialist
Damien Hirst
British | 1965There 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, former 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.
Browse ArtistRegarded 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, former 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.