Hydrocodone

Details

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Hydrocodone
gloss household paint on canvas
59 x 59in. (150 x 150cm.)
Executed in 1995

Provenance

Jay Jopling, London.
Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.

Literature

A. Bonnant, CAP Collection, Switzerland 2005 (illustrated in colour, pp. 10, 22 and 119).

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Lot Essay

'In the spot paintings the grid-like structure creates the beginning of a system. On each panting 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 all the emotional decisions about colour that I need to as an artist, but in the end they are lost' (Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst, i want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 246).

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