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All You Need Is Love - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2008 - MyArtBroker

All You Need Is Love
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£13,000-£19,000Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$23,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥170,000 Value Indicator

16,000-23,000 Value Indicator

$130,000-$190,000 Value Indicator

¥2,480,000-¥3,620,000 Value Indicator

$16,000-$24,000 Value Indicator

-9% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 50

Year: 2008

Size: H 121cm x W 91cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's All You Need Is Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £13,000 and £19,000. This screenprint, created in 2008, has an auction history of seven total sales since its initial sale on 27th October 2014. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £12,141, with a total sales volume of 1. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £12,141 in November 2019 to £22,000 in September 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is currently -9%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Phillips Hong Kong Hong Kong
September 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
May 2015Artcurial France
April 2015Christie's Shanghai China
April 2015Sotheby's New York United States
April 2015Phillips New York United States
October 2014Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Reminiscent of his series of paintings entitled The Four Elements (Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Green and Blue) from 2005, All You Need Is Love depicts the butterflies as though trapped on flypaper. Works such as this were intended to ‘look like an accident of paint with butterflies stuck on it,’ according to the artist. The butterfly is among Hirst’s most famous motifs, emblematic of the fleetingness of life and the romance of death.

This print takes the optimistic sentiments of the Beatles for its title and fuses this with Hirst’s subtle reflections on mortality. The butterflies appear to be suspended in celebration, their wings retaining their vibrance even in death. 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.

  • 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.