How Damien Hirst’s $200 Million Auction Became a Symbol of Pre-Recession Decadence
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Signature: signed and titled 'Biopsy Series 2 Damien Hirst "M122/105" on the reverse; further signed 'Damien Hirst ' and stamped by the Hirst studio on the stretcher
The Artist
Sotheby's, London, 16 September 2008, lot 254
Private Collection
Blain Southern, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
About Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated "Freeze," an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the Young British Artists), Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. His groundbreaking works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a shark in formaldehyde; Mother and Child Divided (1993) a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf; and For the Love of God (2007), a human skull studded with 8,601 diamonds. In addition to his installations and sculptures, Hirst’s Spot paintings and Butterfly paintings have become universally recognized.
British, b. 1965, Bristol, United Kingdom, based in London, United Kingdom
Solo Shows
2018
New York,
2018
Beverly Hills,
2017
Central, Hong Kong,
2015
Milan,
2010
2010
New York,
Damien Hirst: End of an Era
Group Shows
2018
2016
2015
Riehen,
2014
2014
Riehen,
