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Damien Hirst"Cant see the wood for the trees"1996
1996
About the Item
Pencil on paper. Darbyshire framed.
75 x 110 cm
Science Sticker verso.
PROVENANCE:
Gift from the artist to the present owner. Private sales Sothebys.
Darbyshire framed. SCIENCE work ref number 1659 (HIAC).
In 2008 Hirst auctioned his own works direcly at Sothebys in the sale exhibition called
"Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" - among those works a few of the other large scale drawings (same size) from The Corpus
Drawings exhibited alongside this at Gagosian. Selling prices 150.000 - 200.000 GBP.
One of the reasons that Hirst´s large drawings are so expensive is for the simple reason that demand is hign but supply is very low.
Add to this that drawings unlike many other works are from the hand of the artist and not assistants.
From "The Artwolf"
"Hirst plays out his ideas through image as well as text with the urgency and immediacy of a child whose irrepressible, exhaustive imagination is engaged in a constant, passionate pursuit to describe, demarcate, question, invent, discover and even divine. In Can't See the Wood for the Trees (1996), he gives poetic insight into the conceptual basis of his drawings, chronicling their importance in the developmental process of his work, "constructing spaces, drawings for sculptures, ideas become reality, making spaces, ideas made real, in search of reality, looking for Mr. Goodsex, nothing is a problem for me, he tried to internalize everything, from head to paper."
Provenance
Exhibited:
Corpus: Drawings 1981 – 2006 14 September 2006 – 28 October 2006 Solo Exhibition. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, United States.
Literature
Damien Hirst "Corpus: Drawings 1981 – 2006". Full page.
Therese Möllenhoff: "Damien Hirst i Astrup Fearnley samlingen" 2015
- Creator:Damien Hirst (1965, British)
- Creation Year:1996
- Dimensions:Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 43.31 in (110 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Helsingør, DK
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2578212611052
Damien Hirst
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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