Damien Hirst - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 26, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015

  • 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

The End of Pain

2004
Unique spot etching, with collage of pills, medicine box, pack of tablets and leaflet, magazine clippings of gemstones and crystals, post-it note, graph paper, inkstamps in red, and drawings in pencil of pills and skull, on wove paper, with full margins,
I. 34 x 70 in. (86.4 x 177.8 cm)
S. 44 3/8 x 79 1/8 in. (112.7 x 201 cm)
signed, titled and annotated `SOLPADEINE' and `unique print' in pencil, framed.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015