Damien Hirst (British, b.1965)

LOT ID: 72403

Happy, 2008

Mixed Media, syringes, household gloss paint, resin, butterflies and pills on canvas

12 х 10.5 х 2.8 in. cm.

Signed, "D Hirst", lower center.

Edition of 50 unique multiples

Lot description

Comprised of household gloss paint, syringes, resin, butterflies, and pills on canvas, 'Happy' is unique multiple within an edition of 50 created by Damien Hirst in 2008. The work merges three of Hirst's most recognizable themes including butterflies, pharmaceuticals, and spots into a single composition which speaks to the conceptual approach often taken by the artist.

This work comes framed in a Perspex box frame and measures 24.8x23.6x3.9 inches (63x60x10 cm).
Damien Hirst inventory number: DHS 11685

Contemporary British artist Damien Hirst’s (b.1965) œuvre is at once abstract, conceptual, romantic, baroque and minimal. Hirst, winner of the 1995 prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize, has been the most prominent and notorious member of the young British artists (YBAs). While still a student at Goldsmith's College in 1988, he curated the now renowned student exhibition, Freeze, featuring his friends' and his own work, and held in East London. With this exhibition, Hirst brought together a group of young artists who would come to define cutting-edge contemporary art in the 1990s. Hirst's work has generated enormous controversy, in part for its morbidity and fascination with medicine, which is evident in several of his series: the encased dead animals in various states of preservation, the incorporation of butterfly wings into stained glass-like images, cabinets filled with pharmaceuticals, and diamond-encrusted skulls. His art challenges the boundaries between high and low culture, art and science, and addresses the big questions of life, love, and death.

Select Public Collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
Tate Gallery (London, UK)
Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane, AU)

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Framing: Yes (0 x 0 inches)

Item Location: Switzerland
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