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04th Dec 2014This Lot is regular taxed. 19% VAT is added to the purchase price for deliveries within the EU.

Serigraph in colors with glaze on cardboard
Great Britain, 2011
Damien Hirst (born 1965) – British painter, sculptor and concept artist
Signed lower right in pencil ‘Damien Hirst’
Numbered lower left in pencil ‘26/100’
With the blindstamps of the artist lower right and the edition Other Criteria, London, lower left
In white wooden frame
Image size: 48.5 x 43.2 cm
Very good condition
Characteristic spot-composition in soft pastel colors by the British artist Damien Hirst; prints by the artist fetch up to more than €71,000 at international auctions

From 1986 to 2011 Damien Hirst created a series of more than 1,000 so-called ‘spot paintings’, images in which points in different colors, sizes and arrangements are the only image elements. These serigraph published by Other Criteria in London with uniformly distributed points in shiny pastel colors also refers to these ‘spot paintings’.

The serigraph is signed lower right in pencil ‘Damien Hirst’ and lower left numbered with pencil ‘26/100’. Additionally it is provided with the blindstamp of the artist and that of the edition Other Criteria. The sheet is in very good condition. The image measures 48.5 x 43.2 cm, the sheet 70 x 63.5 cm. The framed dimensions are 73 x 66.5 cm.

Damien Hirst (born 1965)

From 1986 to 1989, the British artist studied art at Goldsmiths College in London without wishing to be bound to an art form. The exhibition ‘Freeze’ that he organized in 1988 in an unused warehouse in London's port district showing his own works and works of his fellow students brought him public attention. Hirst, who often employs in his works with themes of death and life, religion and consumer culture became famous in the 1990s by animal bodies preserved in formaldehyde. Also, the diamond adorned platinum cast of a human skull, that Hirst exhibited in 2007 and sold the same year to a record price, caused a stir. Damien Hirst is one of the most influential artists of his generation. (fea)

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