2023
British artist Damien Hirst is widely considered the enfant terrible of contemporary art. He is the most prominent of the so-called Young British Artists, or YBAs, a group, largely composed of Hirst’s classmates at Goldsmiths, in London, that began exhibiting together in warehouses and factories after 1988 and is known for the use of unconventional materials and “shock tactics” in his paintings, prints, sculptures and other works.
In the 1990s, Hirst said, “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.” And indeed, he is notorious for piquing critics and baffling the public with such pieces as his signature glass vitrines containing dead sheep or sharks in formaldehyde, and his diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God.
Working primarily in sculpture, Hirst takes after French modernist master Marcel Duchamp in his use of ready-made objects and materials, which he combines to ironic effect. He often creates in series, as with "The Cure (Violet)" and "The Cure (Turquoise)," both from 2014, which are among several pill paintings referencing Andy Warhol’s embrace of mass production.
Belonging to Hirst's ongoing series of “spot” paintings, begun in the 1980s, the 2005 piece Xylene Cyanol Dye Solution is striking for its machinelike, industrial uniformity and almost childlike simplicity, a seeming rebuke to the idea of the artist-as-genius.
In addition to making art, Hirst has launched stores that sell editioned works (Other Criteria), a restaurant (Pharmacy2) and even his own London museum (Newport Street Gallery).
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Damien Hirst 'Mill Bay, Salcombe' Limited Edition, Signed Print
By Damien Hirst
Located in San Rafael, CA
Damien Hirst (B. 1965) Mill Bay, Salcombe (H13-7), 2023 From the series 'From Where the Land Meets the Sea' Laminated Giclée print on aluminum composite panel Edition: 157/289 Hand s...
Giclée
Christopher Wool 'Untitled' Abstract Expressionist Signed and Numbered Print
By Christopher Wool
Located in San Rafael, CA
Christopher Wool (b. 1955) Untitled, 2006 Screenprint in colors on Rives BFK paper 30 x 22 inches (unframed) P.P. 2/4 (A printer's proof aside from an edition of 40) Signed, numbered...
Screen
Donald Sultan 'Fish' (From Fruit and Flowers), Limited Edition, Signed Print
By Donald Sultan
Located in San Rafael, CA
Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951) "Fish (From Fruit and Flowers Portfolio)" 1990 Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper Pencil initialed, titled, and dated left of image Edition 61...
Lithograph
Sam Francis Signed, Limited Edition Abstract Expressionist Print
By Sam Francis
Located in San Rafael, CA
Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994) Untitled (SF-233), 1977 Lithograph in black on Rives BFK paper, Pencil signed lower right Edition 6/20 Printed by George Page and published by The Litho Shop, Santa Monica, CA. Image: 26in H x 16in L. Full sheet: 30in H x 22in L In vintage acrylic box...
Lithograph
Donald Sultan, from the Wallflowers Series Signed Limited Edition Print
By Donald Sultan
Located in San Rafael, CA
Donald K. Sultan (American, born 1951) Untitled, from Wallflowers, 2008 Screenprint in colors on wove paper Signed with artist's initials, numbered, dated, and titled in pencil along...
Screen
Eyvind Earle 'Ocean Splash' Signed, Limited Edition Print
By Eyvind Earle
Located in San Rafael, CA
Eyvind Earle (1916-2000) Ocean Splash, 1991 Serigraph in colors on wove paper Edition 119/150 Signed lower right With publishers/printers stamp to lower left margin Image: 36in H x ...
Screen
Damien Hirst Faneel H13-11, Where the Land Meets the Sea aluminum panel Signed/N
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
Brand new in original packaging Damien Hirst Faneel, H13-11, from Where the Land Meets the Sea, 2023 Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed, titled, dated and n...
Metal
Damien Hirst, Savoy (H5-8) - Signed Print, Contemporary Art, Abstract Art
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) Savoy (H5-8), 2018 Medium: Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminum panel Dimensions: 88.9 × 88.9 cm (35 × 35 in) Edition 68 of 100: Hand-signed and ...
Giclée
Cannizaro The Veils, Abstract Glicée Print on Aluminum, Signed, 2018
By Damien Hirst
Located in New York, NY
'Cannizaro', 2018 Damien Hirst Glicée print on aluminum 49.6 x 36.5 in. / 126 x 92 cm. Edition of 75, Signed by the Artist Damien Hirst is a British contemporary master artist and e...
Archival Pigment
Untitled Spin Painting By Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in New Orleans, LA
Damien Hirst b. 1965 British Untitled, Spin Painting Household gloss on canvas Damien Hirst has stunned art audiences globally since his arrival on the scene in the late 1980s. H...
Canvas, House Paint
Damien Hirst - Beautiful, Tastefully Sensuous Explosion Painting, Unique Print
By Damien Hirst
Located in Hamburg, DE
Damien Hirst (British, born 1965) Beautiful, Tastefully Sensuous Explosion Painting (H12-2), 2023 Medium: Giclée print on poly-cotton artist canvas mounted on birch plywood stretcher...
Canvas, Giclée
"Circle Spin Painting" framed, signed acrylic on paper by artist Damien Hirst
By Damien Hirst
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Circle Spin Painting" acrylic on paper painting by artist Damien Hirst. Created with public collaboration at the Damien Hirst Spin Workshop to celebrate the opening of "Requiem" at ...
Paper, Acrylic
Once built for curbs and handrails, these boards now hang beside blue-chip works in major museums and collectors’ homes.
Fierceness and fragility coalesce as the British artist revisits a cherished motif — the butterfly.
