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    Sale 7425

    Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale

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    14 October 2007

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    • Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
    Lot 130

    Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

    Blue Skies

    Price realised

    GBP 636,500

    Estimate

    GBP 500,000 - GBP 700,000

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    Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
    Blue Skies
    gloss household paint and eleven butterflies on canvas
    72 x 72in. (182.8 x 182.8cm.)
    Executed in 2005

    Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, London.
    Acquired from the above by the present owner.

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    Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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