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Damien Hirst

Pharmaceuticals Signed Print

Pharmaceuticals

Damien Hirst

Pharmaceuticals
Signed Print

Name: Pharmaceuticals
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (233 reviews)

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 75

Year: 2005

Size: H 127cm x W 103cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Pharmaceuticals (signed) is estimated to be worth between £8,500 and £13,000. This digital print artwork, created in 2005, has an auction history of 22 total sales since its entry to the market in December 2006. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £8,008 in September 2023 to £10,740 in October 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is -1%. This piece is part of a limited edition of 75.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
September 2023	Phillips New York	United States
October 2020	Sotheby's New York	United States
March 2020	Christie's London	United Kingdom
April 2016	Phillips New York	United States
October 2015	Phillips New York	United States
October 2015	Christie's London	United Kingdom
October 2014	Sotheby's New York	United States

Meaning & Analysis

Pharmaceuticals is an inkjet print from 2005 by Damien Hirst, published in an edition of 75. The print shows several rows of pills on display in a medical cabinet, rendered in saturated colours and in photographic detail. Using the medical pill as a central motif to this work, Hirst explores themes of life and death in contemporary society in this mixed media print.

As with many of Hirst’s most famous works, Pharmaceuticals foregrounds the artist’s preoccupation with the human condition. Disrupting any binary discussion of life and death through the ambivalent symbol of the medical pill, Hirst in this print brings sickness, health, addiction and rehabilitation into dialogue with one another. For Hirst, the display of pills represents a state of mind and the way that the contemporary individual has the ability to control feelings in body and mind through modern medicine.

This print is reminiscent of Hirst’s earliest pill cabinet work The Void from 2000. Notably this print depicts the mirrored back of the cabinet that works to produce a visually complexing and highly aestheticized art object. Editioned prints such as Pharmaceuticals embody Hirst’s artistic oeuvre that interrogates the intersections between the scientific and the artistic, that are wrongly assumed to be oppositional in contemporary culture.

Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

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