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Pharmaceuticals - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2005 - MyArtBroker

Pharmaceuticals
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£8,500-£12,500Value Indicator

$17,000-$25,000 Value Indicator

$15,000-$22,000 Value Indicator

¥80,000-¥110,000 Value Indicator

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¥1,630,000-¥2,390,000 Value Indicator

$10,500-$15,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 75

Year: 2005

Size: H 127cm x W 103cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Pharmaceuticals (signed) is estimated to be worth between £8,500 and £12,500. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £8,008 in September 2023 to £11,277 in October 2020. This digital print artwork, created in 2005, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work, part of an edition of 75, has an auction history of 29 total sales since its entry to the market in December 2006.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2023Phillips New York United States
October 2020Sotheby's New York United States
March 2020Christie's London United Kingdom
April 2016Phillips New York United States
October 2015Phillips New York United States
October 2015Christie's London United Kingdom
October 2014Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

As with many of Hirst’s most famous works, Pharmaceuticals foregrounds the artist’s preoccupation with the human condition. Disrupting any binary discussion of life and death through the ambivalent symbol of the medical pill, Hirst in this print brings sickness, health, addiction and rehabilitation into dialogue with one another. For Hirst, the display of pills represents a state of mind and the way that the contemporary individual has the ability to control feelings in body and mind through modern medicine.

This print is reminiscent of Hirst’s earliest pill cabinet work The Void from 2000. Notably this print depicts the mirrored back of the cabinet that works to produce a visually complexing and highly aestheticized art object. Editioned prints such as Pharmaceuticals embody Hirst’s artistic oeuvre that interrogates the intersections between the scientific and the artistic, that are wrongly assumed to be oppositional in contemporary culture.

  • 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.