White Cube, London
Phillips, New York, 14 November 2008, lot 316
Collection of Dr. Jeffrey Sherwin, UK
Outside In: The Dr. Jeffrey Sherwin Collection, Christie's, London, 21 November 2019, lot 91
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Open Ends, 28 September 2000 - 2 January 2001, no. 546
Leeds, City Art Gallery, British Surrealism in Context: A Collectors Eye, 10 July - 01 November 2009, p. 162 (illustrated)
Paris, La Maison Rouge, Under Influences, 15 February 2013 – 19 May 2013 (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum Tinguely, Amuse-Bouche, 19 February - 17 May 2020 (another example exhibited)
Damien Hirst, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London, 2012, p.233 (illustrated)
Jeffrey Sherwin, From France to England, British Surrealism Opened Up, Bradford, 2014, p. 132 (illustrated)
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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