Damien Hirst - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, January 17, 2024 | Phillips
  • 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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The Hours Spin Skull

2009
Unique multiple comprising a plastic skull with gloss enamel paint in colours, with inset watch faces, accompanied by The Hours CD album See the Light, all contained in the original black cardboard box.
15.5 x 14 x 20 cm (6 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 7 7/8 in.)
box 17.5 x 15 x 22.5 cm (6 7/8 x 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Titled in black paint on the reverse, numbered 174/210 in white pencil on the reverse of the box, one of 210 unique colour variants, published by Other Criteria, London.

Estimate
£2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for £4,445

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 17 - 18 January 2024