Name: The Dead (loganberry pink, lime green)
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Damien Hirst's The Dead (loganberry pink, lime green) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £4,700 and £7,000. This foil block artwork, created in 2014, has an auction history of two total sales since its entry to the market on 25th October 2015. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or the last five years. This work is part of a limited edition of 15 and has shown an average annual growth rate of 5%.

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April 2018

Forum Auctions London

United Kingdom

October 2015

Phillips New York

United States

Meaning & Analysis

The Dead (loganberry pink, lime green) is a signed foil block print in colours, on Arches paper produced by renowned contemporary artist, Damien Hirst. In this print, Hirst depicts a skull which floats in the centre of the composition. The skull is rendered in a bold loganberry pink with bright lime green touches against a plain, white backdrop.

The print, made in 2009, is part of the artist’s The Dead series. The series, composed of thirty-one prints, takes death as its central theme. Each print in the series shows a skull, however the difference lies in the unique combination of colours Hirst uses in the prints. The skull, as representative of death, is a motif that runs throughout Hirst’s oeuvre. Hirst uses images of skulls in other series such as I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am (2007) and Memento (2008). The artist also attracted great attention and critical acclaim for his work For the Love of God, a sculpture made in 2007 which consisted of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds

Hirst has been referred to as ‘an everyman’s existentialist’ due to his obsession with exploring questions of life and death in his artworks. As well as depicting skulls, a universally recognised symbol representing death, Hirst also incorporates pharmaceutical products and dead insects into his artworks to further investigate questions of life and death through art.