DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)

Cytotec

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DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)
Cytotec
signed 'D. Hirst' (on the reverse); signed again, titled and dated twice and inscribed 'D. Hirst, Cytotec, 1995, 4 'Spot B/W, 11 x 13, 84' x 100' (on the stretcher)
gloss household paint on canvas
84 x 100in. (213.3 x 254cm.)

Provenance

White Cube, London.

Literature

G. Burn and D. Hirst, "Damien Hirst i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one always, forever, now", London 1997, p. 244 (illustrated in colour).

Lot Essay

"I am often asked about the spot paintings... they are about the urge or the need to be a painter above and beyond the object of a painting. I've often said that they are like sculptures of paintings... In the spot paintings the grid-like structure creates the beginning of a system. On each painting no two colours are the same. This ends the system; it's a simple system. No matter how I feel as an artist or a painter, the paintings end up looking happy. I can still make emotional decisions about colour that I need to as an artist, but in the end they are lost. The end of painting..."
(In: Pictura Britanica/Art From Britain, Sydney 1997.)

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