Lullaby
Lullaby
Signed Print
Damien Hirst
£12,500-£19,000Value Indicator
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¥120,000-¥180,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Intaglio
Edition size: 55
Year: 2014
Size: H 60cm x W 60cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2023 | Christie's London | United Kingdom | |||
| June 2018 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| October 2017 | Sotheby's New York | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
The final etching of Damien Hirst’s Love Poems series is Lullaby from 2015, that shows six beautifully rendered butterflies scattered across the square composition. Set against a bright pink backdrop of flat colour, the butterflies are placed seemingly at random, some positioned upside down.
As with all the works in the Love Poems series, Hirst flattens the otherwise hyperrealist butterflies in Lullaby with the block colour backdrop and by showing them as though they are on display in a natural history cabinet. The scientific precision with which the butterflies are rendered emphasises this notion of the insect display cabinet. Indeed, Hirst conflates the scientific with the aesthetic throughout this series. The aesthetic comes into play in the creation of a beautiful image that uses bright and complimentary colours.
Hirst uses the butterfly motif throughout his artistic oeuvre as a ‘universal trigger.’ This motif helps the artist to explore the uncertainties at the core of human experience: love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unconventional media. The Love Poems series points to this exploration in its title, each of the prints attributed with a poetic or affectionate title like She Walks in Beauty or Longing.
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.
