Auction Details - Paintings, Household Gloss, on round canvas, Damien Hirst, Beautiful Aurora Painting, Lot 16054

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Lot ID: 16054

Damien Hirst: Beautiful Aurora Painting

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Estimate

US$290,000–350,000

End Time

November 12, 2009

Description

Artist: Hirst Damien

Bio: View biography on artnet

Title: Beautiful Aurora Painting

Style: abstract, Contemporary, Young British Artists

Medium: Paintings, Household Gloss, on round canvas

Year: 2007

Size: height - 48 in, width - 48 in, depth - 0 in cm

Markings: signed, twice "Damien Hirst", dated "2007", and titled "Beautiful Aurora Painting", on verso; stamped "HIRST/HIRST" on verso

Estimate: from US$290,000 to US$350,000

Seller's Description:

As brilliant and as Zen as the Aurora Borealis, a Beautiful, Radiant starburst Spin by DAMIEN HIRST! Fratured light sprays perennial energy from an endless perimeter in this spin tondo by the British artist. This 5-feet-diameter size, painted in the artist's trademark 'household gloss paint', is spun-out in varying layers and thicknesses of wet-over-wet, thick-over-thin, thin-over-thick and thick-over-thick application.

Condition Report
- Current lot doesn't have any damage.

History & Provenance
- Provenance:
  Private Collection, London

Shipping Information
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  Shipping Weight: 30 lbs
  
  Framing: Yes
  
  Item Location: United Kingdom
  
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household gloss on canvas
48.0 in. x 48.0 in. / 121.9 cm. x 121.9 cm. Signed, Inscribed

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Sotheby's London:
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household gloss on canvas
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Sotheby's London:
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, (Lot 00139)
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Beautiful mind bending, spoon bending, gender bending painting, 2008
household gloss on canvas
48.0 in. x 48.0 in. / 121.9 cm. x 121.9 cm. Signed, Inscribed

Estimate: US$215,363 - 323,044 Estimate: US$215,363 Bought In WITHDRAWN Sold for US$562,186

Sotheby's London:
Tuesday, September 16, 2008, (Lot 00204)
Damien Hirst - Beautiful Inside My Head Forever

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Biography & Links
Damien Hirst Biography

1965	Born in Bristol, UK

1985	Foundation course at Leeds School of Art, Leeds, UK

1988	Curated the student exhibition, Freeze, in a warehouse at Surrey Docks in East London, UK

1986-1989	B.A. in Fine Art, Goldsmith College, London, UK

1994	Recipient, DAAD fellowship in Berlin, Germany

1995	Recipient, Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK

	Lives and works in Devon and London, UK
Selected Exhibitions

1988	Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK

1989	New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1990	Modern Medicine, Building One, London, UK Gambler, Building One, London, UK

1991	When Logics Die, Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (solo) Internal Affairs, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (solo) In & Out of Love, Woodstock Street, London, UK (solo) Damien Hirst, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK (solo) Louder Than Words, The Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Broken English,Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

1992	Where’s God Now, Jay & Donatella Chiat, New York, NY (solo) Marianne, Hildegard, Unfair/Jay Jopling, Cologne, Germany (solo) Damien Hirst: Third International Istanbul Biennial, British Council, Istanbul, Turkey (solo) Pharmacy, Cohen Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Young British Artists, Saatchi Collection, London, UK Portfolio, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK Posthuman, Fondation Asher Edelman, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy Group Exhibition, Luis Campaña Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK British Art, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1993	Visual Candy. Regen Projects. Los Angeles, CA. (solo)

1993	Damien Hirst, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany (solo) Visual Candy, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Here and Now: Twenty Three Years of the Serpentine Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK The 21st Century, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland The Nightshade Family, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Aperto: Venice Biennial, Aperto Section, Venice, Italy Displace, Cohen Gallery, New York, NY A Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

1994	Pharmacy, Museum, Dallas, TX (solo) Making Beautiful Drawings, Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (solo) Currents 23, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo) A Bad Environment for White Monchrome Paintings, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo) Cocido Y Crudo, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Nature Morte, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY Some Went Mad, Some Ran Away, curated by Damien Hirst,Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki, Finland; Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Portalen, Copenhagen, Danemark

1995	Pharmacy, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (solo) Still, Jay Jopling/White Cube, London, UK (solo) Sings and Wonders, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Minky Manky, South London Gallery, London, UK; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK A Bonnie Situation : Truth and Fiction, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany Laboratories, Galerie Art et Essai, University of Rennes, Rennes, France The Reflected Image, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, UK [winner] Brilliant! Art from London, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, MN; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1996	No Sense of Absolute Corruption, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Life/Live, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Centro de Exposições do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal Other Men’s Flowers, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany Do It, Raum Aktueller Kunst, Vienna, Austria Twentieth Century British Sculpture, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France A Small Shifting Sphere of Serious Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Spellbound, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Works on Paper, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Happy End, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany

1997	Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo) Damien Hirst, Helsinki City Art Museum. Helsinki, Finland (solo) The Beautiful Afterlife, Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Germany (solo) Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Picture Britanica. Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Turning Up #4, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany Sunny Days / Critical Times. An Exhibition of Works from the Bohen Foundation’s Collection, The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY Veronica’s Revenge : Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Szitzerland Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1998	Damien Hirst, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK Wall Projects: Damien Hirst, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo) Potrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA UK Maximum Diversity, Galerie Krinzinger, Bregenz, Austria Fun de Siècle, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, Germany Pandaemonium. The London Festival of Moving Image, LEA, London, UK Fifty Years of British Sculpture: Works from the Arts Council Collection, Lothbury Gallery, London, UK Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Charles Ray, 11 Duke Street, London, UK The Colony Room 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Projects, London, UK Inner Eye, Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, FL Modern British Art, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK Noir, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Wild/Life, -or-, The Impossibility of Mistaking Nature for Culture, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC

2000	Pharmacy, Tate Gallery, London, UK (solo) Focus on Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (solo) Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Damien Hirst, Sadler’s Wells, London, UK (solo) Hyper Mental, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Lets Entertain, Walker Arts Centre, Minneiapolis, MN; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Peter Blake About Collage, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK After Life, 11 Duke Street, London, UK The History of the Turner Prize, 1984-1999 and People’s Show 2: Pictures selected by the public, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK Video Vibe. Art, Music and Video in the UK, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy Minding, Le Garage, Geneva, Switzerland Zeitgenossen/Contemporarians:Malerei/Paintings, Galerie Editions Kunsthandel GmbH, Essen, Germany On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Out There, White Cube, Hoxton, London, UK Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Art in Sacred Spaces, St. Stephen’s Church, London, UK Psycho, Anne Faggionato, London, UK Blue: borrowed and new, The New At Gallery, Walsall, UK Sincerely yours. British art from the 90s, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway

2001	Artist’s London: Holbein to Hirst, Museum of London, London, UK Art –Tube 01, Café De Paris, London, UK Printers Inc., The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK Art > Music, Rock Pop Techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Double Vision, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany Freestyle. Werke Aus der Sammlung Boros, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Beautiful Productions. Art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel, London, UK Camera Works. The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY e, Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO Field Day, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Public Offerings, The Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA "Breaking the Mould: 20th Century British Sculpture from Tate, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK Century City, Tate Modern, London, UK

2002	Damien Hirst’s art education, The Reliance, Leeds, UK (solo) Last Spring in Paris, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany La Part de l’Autre, Musée d’art Contemporain, Nimes, France Limits of Perception, Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain To Eat or Not to Eat, CASA. Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain Painting Matter, James Cohen Gallery, New York, NY The Physical World, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY The Rowan Collection. Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Self-Medicated, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003	Romance In the Age of Uncertainty, White Cube, London, UK (solo) From the Cradle to the Grave: Selected Drawings, The 25th International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo) The Marble Palace, Russian State Museum, San Petersburg, Russia (solo) Damien Hirst, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (solo) Damien Hirst In A Spin; The Action of the World on Things, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin, Germany (solo) Damien Hirst, La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain (solo) Same Time This Year, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2004	Damien Hirst, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, Germany (solo) The Agony and The Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989-2004, Archaeological Museum, Naples (solo) Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK Intra-muros, MAMAC, Nice, France Paper Democracy, Contemporary Art in Editions on Paper, Edifício Cultura Inglesa, São Paulo, Brazil What’s Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Tate Britain, London, UK Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London

2005	A Selection of Works by Damien Hirst from Various Collections, MFA Boston, Boston, MA (solo) New Religion, Paul Stolper, London, UK (solo) Damien Hirst. Works on Paper, Robert Sandelson, London, UK (solo) Damien Hirst, Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway (solo) Damien Hirst, Static Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo) The Elusive Truth, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Damien Hirst. In A Spin, Gascoigne Gallery, Harrogate, UK (solo) Damien Hirst – Works on Paper, Andipa Gallery, London, UK (solo) Bock mit Inhalt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2006	Aftershock: Contemporary British Art 1990-2006, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY Picture This, The Bargehouse, London, UK Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo) A Thousand Years & Triptychs, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo) The Death of God. Towards a Better Understanding of a Life Without God Aboard the Ship of Fools, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico (solo) Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Motion On Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK

2007	Damien Hirst, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX (solo) Damien Hirst, Galería Hilario Galguera and Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico (solo) New Religion, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy (solo) Beyond Belief, White Cube, London, UK (solo) Stations of the Cross, Essl Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (solo) New Religion, Paul Stolper Gallery; Wallspace, London, UK (solo) Superstition, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; London, UK (solo) Damien Hirst, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (solo)

2008	You Dig The Tunnel, I’ll Hide The Soil, White Cube, London, UK (solo) Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, Sotheby’s Auction, London, UK (solo) For the Love of God, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)

2009	Life, Death and Love, Galerie Rudolfinum; Prague, Czech Republic (solo) Requiem, PinchukArtCentre / PAC, Kiev, Ukraine (solo)

2010	Visual/Conceptual - National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) - Moscow Branch, Moscow, Russia FYI – The Reflected Gaze Self Portraiture Today - Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Literature

2000	Burn, Gordon and George Poste. Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2000 (catalogue)

2001	Burn, Gordon. On the Way to Work - Damien Hisrst. London, UK: Faber and Faber, 2001

2003	Shani, Annushka. Romance in the Age of Uncertainty. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2003 (catalogue)

2004	Shani, Annushka. From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings. London: Other Criteria, 2004 Cicelyn Eduardo and Codognato Mario. Damien Hirst. Edited by the Museo Archeologico Nazionale. Naples, Italy: Electa, 2004 (catalogue)

2005	The Elusive Truth, New Paintings. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2005 (catalogue)

2006	The Elusive Truth. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue) The Death of God. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006 (catalogue) Baker, Simon. Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2006 (catalogue) Hirst, Damien,Burn, Gordon. I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now. London, UK: Other Criteria, 2006 Peyton-Jones J., Miller H. and Obrist H.U. In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst. London, UK:Other Criteria / Serpentine Gallery, 2006 (catalogue) New Religion. London, UK: Other Criteria / Paul Stolper Gallery (catalogue)

2007	Superstition. New York: Other Criteria / Gagosian Gallery, 2007 (catalogue) Fuchs R., Kausmally T., Swain H. and Bill White. For the Love of God The Making of the Diamond Skull. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2007

2008	Bracewell M., Burn G. and Macaulay Michael. Beautiful Inside My Head Forever. London, UK: Sotheby's, 2008 (catalogue) Fuchs, Rudi, Damien Hirst, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Will Self. Beyond Belief. London, UK: Other Criteria and Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008 (catalogue) Miller, Harland. You dig the tunnel, I’ll hide the soil. London, UK: Jay Jopling / White Cube, 2008

2009	Bracewell, Michael. Requiem I & II Slipcase Edition. London, UK; Kiev, Ukraine: Other Criteria / Pinchuk Art Centre, 2009 (catalogues)

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