Damien Hirst
BIOGRAPHY
Damien Hirst Biography - The pioneer and most recognized name from the YBA (Young British Artist) genre, Damien Hirst has grown to become the highest profile and most commercially savvy artist of the millennium. Only Andy Warhol has come close to Damien Hirst's prolific output. Aided by a small army of studio assistants, Damien Hirst has become one of the most recognized names of contemporary art and culture. Damien Hirst's work is often challenging in subject matter and difficult to live with. Damien Hirst's subjects include animal corpses, skulls, flies, maggots and religious iconography. Damien Hirst's work consistently revolves around the intertwined topics of science and religion, questioning the transition of society from a belief in God to a belief in drugs and science. Often controversial, Damien Hirst's most iconic work is "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living", a fourteen foot shark entombed in a glass vitrine filled with formaldehyde. Along with being one of the most commercially astute artists of his generation, Damien Hirst has held single artist auctions of his own work in London. Damien Hirst has also claimed the title of the most expensive living artist after the sale of his diamond encrusted skull, "For The Love of God."
Paintings
Damien Hirst - Spin painting (Gold/Purple)
Acrylic and metallic paint on circular card, this colourway represents one of the most desirable of the spin paintings on paper
Damien Hirst - Spin Painting (Blue/Green)
Acrylic on card
Damien Hirst - Spin Painting (Red Blue Green)
Original acrylic spin painting, 2002
Damien Hirst - Butterfly Paintings
Gloss Household Paint and Collage on Canvas
Damien Hirst - Spin Painting
Household gloss on canvas
Damien Hirst - Spot Painting
Gloss household paint on canvas
Damien Hirst - Mithunam
Household acrylic on canvas with butterfly
Medicine Cabinets
Damien Hirst - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Needles and syringes in plexiglas cabinet
The Last Supper
Damien Hirst - Dumpling
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Beans Chips
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Live, Bacon & Onions
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Sandwich
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Salad
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Omelette
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Cornish Pasty
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Chicken
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Corned Beef
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Meatballs
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Mushroom
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Sausages
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Steak and Kidney
Screen print on paper
Prints
Damien Hirst - The Soul On Jacobs Latter
Silkscreen on Somerset satin
Damien Hirst - Ellipticine
Etching printed in colours
Damien Hirst - Flumequine
Etching printed in colours
Damien Hirst - Independent(Red)
Screen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Six Pills
Inkjet print on paper
Damien Hirst - Two Pills
Inkjet print on paper
Damien Hirst - All you need is Love, Love, Love
Silkscreen print on paper
Damien Hirst - The Souls of Jacob’s Ladder take Their Flight (4)
Photogravure etching printed in colours
Damien Hirst - The Souls of Jacob’s Ladder take Their Flight (6)
Photogravure etching printed in colours
Damien Hirst - All you need is Love
Silkscreen print on paper
Damien Hirst - Duomo (Cathedral)
Silkscreen 4 colour way print with glazes and pearlised colours on 410gsm Somerset Tub paper
Damien Hirst - Notre Dame
Silkscreen 4 colour way print with glazes and pearlised colours on 410gsm Somerset Tub paper
Damien Hirst - Histidyl
Printed on 410gsm Somerset tub paper, made up of 24 colours with an under print of white, silver and a glaze.
Damien Hirst - Lepidine
Printed on 410gsm Somerset tub paper,is made up of 24 colours with an under print of white, silver and a glaze
Damien Hirst - Ring a Ring a Roses
Color Etching
Damien Hirst - Spinning Wheel
Color Etching
Damien Hirst - All you need is Love, Love, Love (Diamond Dust)
Silkscreen print on paper, 2008
Damien Hirst - Ciclopirox Olamine
Etching
Damien Hirst - Cineole
Etching
Damien Hirst - Cinchonidine
Etching
Damien Hirst - Big Love (Diamond Dust)
Silkscreen print on paper, 2010
Damien Hirst - Methamphetamine
Color etching with aquatint
Damien Hirst - Pyronin Y
Color etching
Damien Hirst - Bromphenol Blue
Color etching
Damien Hirst - Cephalothin
Color etching with aquatint
Damien Hirst - Doxylamine
Color etching with aquatint
Damien Hirst - Ethidium Bromide Aqueous Solution
Color etching with aquatint
Damien Hirst - Xylene Cyanol Dye Solution
Color etching with aquatint
Damien Hirst - Dome
Etching printed in colours (2009)
Damien Hirst - Altar
Etching printed in colours (2009)
Auction Highlights
Damien Hirst - Untitled (Spin Painting)
Damien Hirst, Untitled (Spin Painting) 2004, 17.3" x 17.3" Acrylic on paper
Damien Hirst - Untitled- Two Spin Drawings (2 works)
Damien Hirst Untitled- Two Spin Drawings (2 works) 1994, 8.3" x 5.7" Watercolor, pastel, wax crayon and felt-tip pen
Damien Hirst - Spin
Damien Hirst Spin, 2002, 18" x 18" Acrylic on paper
Damien Hirst - Untitled- Spin
Damien Hirst Untitled- Spin, 2002, 18" x 18" Acrylic on paper
The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight
Damien Hirst - 01
photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - 02
photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - 03
photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - 04
photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - 05
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - 06
Photogravure etching
I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am
Damien Hirst - Skull 1
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - Skull 2
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - Skull 3
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - Skull 4
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - Skull 5
Photogravure etching
Damien Hirst - Skull 6
Photogravure etching