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Damien Hirst (British, b.1965)
LOT ID: 69087
Six Pills, 2008

Digital Print, Inkjet print
28.74 х 37.91 in. cm.
Signed, recto, numbered verso
Edition of 75
Lot description
This print was originally produced to accompany Hirst's 2004 New York exhibition The Elusive Truth, which focused on larger-than-life, hand painted tablets. Hirst has explored pharmaceuticals in many of his works, from his spot prints to his Last Supper. This print is in absolute 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)
Six Pills by Damien Hirst
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