Damien Hirst - 24/7: Online Auction Hong Kong Tuesday, July 20, 2021 | Phillips

24/7: Online Auction

Online Auction 21 - 30 July 2021

  • “The thing about Mickey is that even though he’s gone through so many shifts in form and association, he’s timeless. In a way he means the same in the 21st Century as he did decades ago. I watched the cartoons as a kid, and my kids watch them too. He’s relevant because he’s remained so culturally ingrained and he still just looks so great...It’s using simple means to capture the very essence of his form solely through the power of colour. I love that the imagery is so powerful that it only takes twelve different coloured dots to create something so instantly recognisable.” —— Damien Hirst

    • Provenance

      Private Collection
      TateWard Auctions, London, 1 October 2019, lot 254
      Acquired at the above sale 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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Damien Hirst

Mickey (Blue Glitter)

signed and numbered 'Damien Hirst 27/50' with the artist's copyright inkstamp on the reverse
screenprint in colours with glitter on wove paper
sheet 151.8 x 122.1 cm. (59 3/4 x 48 1/8 in.)
frame 162.8 x 133.5 cm. (64 1/8 x 52 1/2 in.)
Published by Other Criteria, London in 2016, this work is number 27 from an edition of 50 plus 10 artist's proofs.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
HK$250,000 - 450,000 
€27,200-48,900
$32,100-57,700

Sold for HK$315,000

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24/7: Online Auction

Online Auction 21 - 30 July 2021