Damien Hirst - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm

  • 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

Happy

2008
Syringes, butterflies, pills, resin and household gloss paint on canvas, the full sheet,
overall 63 x 60.2 x 10 cm (24 3/4 x 23 3/4 x 3 7/8 in.)
canvas 38 x 35 cm (14 7/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
signed in pencil, a unique variant from the edition of 50, and inscribed with the Damien Hirst Studio number 'DHS 11685' in pencil on the reverse, with the accompnaying certificate of authenticity, published by Other Criteria, London, in very good condition, mounted in white wood artist's frame.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 ♠

Sold for £25,000

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Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm