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Cineole Signed Print

Cineole

Damien Hirst

Cineole
Signed Print

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

Damien Hirst

£8,500-£13,000Value Indicator

$17,000-$27,000 Value Indicator

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$11,000-$17,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Aquatint

Edition size: 145

Year: 2004

Size: H 115cm x W 113cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Cineole (signed) is estimated to be worth between £8,500 and £13,000. This aquatint artwork, created in 2004, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This piece has an auction history of 15 total sales since its entry to the market in April 2008. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £7,500, across 1 total sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £7,500 in November 2024 to £12,000 in September 2023. The average return to the seller over this time period was £8,075. Cineole is part of a limited edition of 145.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
November 2024	Bonhams New Bond Street	United Kingdom
November 2023	Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers	United Kingdom
September 2023	Christie's London	United Kingdom
December 2018	Ketterer Kunst Hamburg	Germany
September 2016	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom
March 2016	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom
March 2015	Sotheby's Online	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Cineole is a signed etching by Damien Hirst from 2004. The print shows many spots, methodically arranged into a perfect circle and each depicted in a unique colour. Set against a plain, white backdrop, this print has a sterile and simplistic aesthetic that makes the spot paintings so distinct and instantly recognisable.

The composition is a tight knit mesh of spots set against a plain white backdrop, the bright and round coloured spots bright and buzzing. The colour and arrangement appear to be seemingly random and with infinite possibilities in their display. Fascinated by intuitive colour choice from his days at Goldsmiths, Hirst claims that the spot paintings have removed any problems he previously had with colour, allowing him to present a perfect arrangement of colour that is never repeated.

Cineole is reminiscent of Hirst’s vast series of spot paintings, of which there are over 1000 in existence, dating from 1986 to 2011. The spots represent abstraction reduced to its most basic mechanisms: colour, form and composition. The grid formula for these paintings is the basis for an unbounded series where Hirst can infinitely explore harmonious and contrasting colour combinations.

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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