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Damien Hirst

Pharmacy Signed Print

Pharmacy

Damien Hirst

Pharmacy
Signed Print

Name: Pharmacy
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 200

Year: 1992

Size: H 22cm x W 22cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Pharmacy (signed) is estimated to be worth between £1,850 and £2,800. This lithograph print, created in 1992, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of nine total sales since its entry to the market in February 2004. In the last 12 months, there have been no sales, but over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,124 in May 2021 to £2,282 in June 2022. The average annual growth rate is 6%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
June 2022	Phillips New York	United States
May 2021	Bonhams New York	United States
November 2018	Freeman's	United States
July 2018	Sotheby's New York	United States
May 2015	Artcurial	France
June 2012	Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris	France
July 2009	Bonhams Knightsbridge	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Pharmacy is a print by Damien Hirst from 1992, signed and published in an edition of 200. The print shows a photograph of Hirst’s site-specific work of the same name, first shown in 1992 at the Cohen Gallery in New York. The original work was a true to life sized installation of a pharmacy, using materials like shelved cabinets and objects representing pharmaceutical drugs.

Hirst has said of his pharmaceutical works, “I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilisation, with some sort of hierarchy within it. It’s also like a contemporary museum of the Middle Ages. In a hundred years time this will look like an old apothecary. A museum of something that’s around today.”

Much of Hirst’s oeuvre, including Pharmacy, is reminiscent of the work of Marcel Duchamp and his ‘ready-mades’. Taking images and objects from the everyday and hardly making any alterations, Hirst confronts the viewer with questions around what makes something art? Is an object considered an art object because it sits in a museum? Both the original installation of Pharmacy and the printed editions epitomise this notion of the ready-made, bringing true-to-life medicine cabinets and the setting of a pharmacy into the museum space.

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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