Damien Hirst


Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs), who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reputed to be the richest living artist to date. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.
Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s, and the symbol of Britart worldwide. He has also made "spin paintings," created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly-colored circles.
In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and by-passing his long-standing galleries. The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyd.

Screenprint Portfolio
All You Need Is Jealousy
Spot Deck #1
Spot Deck #5
Supreme Skate Deck
Psalm Print: Exaudi, Domine
The Dead Silver Gloss Oriental Gold Skull
The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (Blue with Pink/Yellow) - unique
Skateboard Decks (5)
The Hours Spin Skull
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Fuchsia Pink/Lime Green Skull
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Imperial Purple /Silver Gloss Skull
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Lime Green/Raven Black Skull
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Loganberry Pink/Oriental Gold Skull
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The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (Green/Yellow)
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Hagia Sophia
Mixed Media Portfolio
Glory
Cobalt Thiocyanate
The souls of Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (6)
King Midas
Bromphenol Red
Dicaprin
Untitled (Spin Painting)
Round (In a Spin vol. 1)
Lithograph Portfolio
Anthrafuchsone
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The Last Supper
Painting Portfolio
Spin Painting (Red Blue Green)
Phenylboronic Acid
Supreme Deck Set
Lauric Acid Behenyl Ester
Beautiful Quantum Mystical Third Eye Painting
Second series biopsy: M122/105
The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight
De Beers
The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (Small Green)
Conde
The Elusive Truth, New Paintings
Follow my Leader
Untitled ( Heart)
In a spin, the action of the world on things
LSD
Steak and Kidney
1.- Bromoadamantane
Viral Landscape No. 3
In a Spin, the Action of the World on Things, Volume II
'Spin Paintings'
'Spin Paintings'
'Spin Paintings'
'Spin Paintings'
Spin painting 2
Mural Portfolio
Cashmere blanket
Large Spot Clock
Saint Paul's
Etching Portfolio
Hope
Pink Butterfly (from the 'Memento' portfolio)
The souls of Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (4)
To Love
I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am
Doxylamine
Ethidium Bromide Aqueous Solution
Xylene Cynol Dye Solution
Bromphenol Blue
Cineole
Cinchonidine
Twist and Shout
Orbital
Drawing Portfolio
Corpus: Drawings 1981 - 2006
From the Cradle to the grave, Selected Drawings
From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings
Other Portfolio
Damien Hirst (Stroud, Gloucestershire, England)
Pill Cufflinks (Silver)
 	 Beautiful Inside My Head Forever
No Love Lost
Requiem II (Skull Paintings)
Happy
Happiness
Fun
Self Portrait (Right)
Self Portrait (Full Body)
Self Portrait (Left)
Self Portrait (Body)
Deckchair, Black
Deckchair, Orange
Deckchair, Sky Blue
Deckchair, Red
Deckchair, Yellow
Deckchair, Lime Green
The Souls on Jacob's Ladder Take Their Flight (Small Yellow/Black)
Superstition
For the Love of God: The Making of The Diamond Skull
Beyond Belief
The Souls on Jacob’s Ladder Take Their Flight
The Elusive Truth, New Paintings
The Death of God
In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection
I Want To Spend the Rest of My Life Everywhere, with Everyone, One to One, Always, Forever, Now
Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results and Findings
The Cancer Chronicles
The Agony and the Ecstasy
From the Cradle to the Grave, Selected Drawings - Broadsheet
On the Way to Work
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Mindy The cat
Unique Spin Record
Self Portrait (Left)
Happy
Art Shows
10/07/10 The Souls London
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