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Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Artnet Auctions, April 7, 2022, lot 136390
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Hannover, Galerie Koch, Damien Hirst: The Wonder of you, Spots & More, April 23–May 21, 2016 (another example exhibited)
Nadia Herzog, “Damien Hirst Reflects upon the Relationship between Life and Death,” Widewalls, April 20, 2016, online (another example 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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