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Damien Hirst (British, b.1965)
LOT ID: 69126
Histidyl, 2008

Serigraph / Screenprint
29.9 х 37.4 in. cm.
Signed, recto, numbered, verso
Edition of 150
Lot description
First exhibited in 1988, Hirst's “Spot” works, also known as the “Pharmaceutical Paintings,” have become some of the art world’s most recognizable, classic images and have come to define the way much of our culture views contemporary and conceptual art. The series was initially conceived as a scientific approach to painting, much like drug companies’ scientific approach to life. As the series evolved, Hirst began to discover the intriguing link between painting and psychological mood. This print is in absolutely mint condition.

As the celebrated bad boy artist of our time, Contemporary British artist Damien Hirst’s (b.1965) œuvre is at once abstract, conceptual, romantic, baroque and minimal. Hirst carries on the legacy of Warhol with sensation-seeking, factory-made work that is as much about marketing as it is about content. 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. Hirst, winner of the 1995 prestigious Tate Gallery Turner Prize, has been the most prominent and notorious member of the young British artists (YBAs). Hirst's work has earned him the right to exhibit in numerous venues worldwide including the Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2007), the White Cube, London, UK (2008) and the National Center for Contemporary Art Moscow, Russia (2010), among others.

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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