Six Pills (large)
Signed Print

Name: Six Pills (large)
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 2004

Size: H 69cm x W 82cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Six Pills (large) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This screenprint, created in 2004, is a signed artwork and has an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market on 14th September 2010. The artwork is rare to the market and has shown a consistent value growth. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
June 2018	Phillips London	United Kingdom
May 2015	Sotheby's New York	United States
April 2015	Phillips New York	United States
September 2010	Christie's London	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Six Pills (large) is a screen print from 2005 by Damien Hirst. The work shows six large pills on display in a mirrored medical cabinet across two shelves, each hand painted and varying in colour and size. Upon first impression, Six Pills (large) is sterile in its aesthetic, but like many of Hirst’s works it brings profound questions of the human condition into play.

Hirst has explained why he is interested in the medical pill motif commenting, “Pills are a brilliant little form, better than any minimalist art. They’re all designed to make you buy them…they come out of flowers, plants, things from the ground, and they make you feel good, you know, to just have a pill, to feel beauty.”

Reminiscent of his famous sculpture from 2008 Memories of/Moments with You, Hirst brings themes of life and death into dialogue with one another, disrupting strict boundaries between sickness and health, and addiction and rehabilitation. In Memories of/Moments with You, the pills appeared as little sculptures in themselves, rather than mass produced objects, due to their hand crafted and hand painted form that reveals the artist’s touch. Inspired by minimalism of the 1960s, Hirst’s pill cabinets recall the work of American sculptor Donald Judd in their incessant repetition and use of colour.

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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