Untitled (Birthday Card Suite)

Details

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Untitled (Birthday Card Suite)
household gloss paint and butterflies on shaped canvas in artist's frame
84¼ x 84¼in. (214.3 x 214.3cm.)
Executed in 1999

Provenance

White Cube, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 10 February 2005, lot 60.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Special notice

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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Lot Essay

"[Love] seems so difficult to sustain. Love is realistic; desire is unrealistic. It's easier to blindfold yourself, change your girlfriend every 6 months and not look in the mirror than to live with someone forever and see change. Although I'm tired of the word Love, it's like 'God'. Instead of saying 'I love you', I want to say, 'I'm delighted you're alive.'"

(Damien Hirst, quoted in exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Damien Hirst: No Sense of Absolute Corruption, 1996, p.116-17).

Untitled (Birthday Card Suite)

Lot Essay

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