Damien Hirst - 20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale Hong Kong Saturday, May 27, 2017 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private Collection, Dusseldorf
    Phillips, London, 29 June 2009, lot 111
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    Please note that this is the box cover of a folio set of etchings titled In a Spin the Action of The World on Things edited by The Paragon Press, London, 2002. The entire volume is recorded in the Damien Hirst archive.

  • 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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Property of an Important Asian Collector

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In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things

2002
household gloss paint on canvas laid on fiberboard
118 x 96 cm (46 1/2 x 37 3/4 in.)
Painted in 2002.

Estimate
HK$400,000 - 600,000 
€48,200-72,200
$51,300-76,900

Sold for HK$562,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

Hong Kong Auction 28 May 2017