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Pharmacy - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 1992 - MyArtBroker

Pharmacy
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£1,900-£2,850Value Indicator

$3,750-$5,500 Value Indicator

$3,400-$5,000 Value Indicator

¥17,000-¥26,000 Value Indicator

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7% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 200

Year: 1992

Size: H 22cm x W 22cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Pharmacy (signed), a lithograph from 1992, is estimated to be worth between £1,900 and £2,850. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,124 in May 2021 to £2,282 in June 2022. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. This is a popular work, having been sold 9 times at auction since its initial sale in February 2004. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2022Phillips New York United States
May 2021Bonhams New York United States
November 2018Freeman's United States
July 2018Sotheby's New York United States
May 2015Artcurial France
June 2012Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris France
July 2009Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Hirst has said of his pharmaceutical works, “I’ve always seen medicine cabinets as bodies, but also like a cityscape or civilisation, with some sort of hierarchy within it. It’s also like a contemporary museum of the Middle Ages. In a hundred years time this will look like an old apothecary. A museum of something that’s around today.”

Much of Hirst’s oeuvre, including Pharmacy, is reminiscent of the work of Marcel Duchamp and his ‘ready-mades’. Taking images and objects from the everyday and hardly making any alterations, Hirst confronts the viewer with questions around what makes something art? Is an object considered an art object because it sits in a museum? Both the original installation of Pharmacy and the printed editions epitomise this notion of the ready-made, bringing true-to-life medicine cabinets and the setting of a pharmacy into the museum space.

  • 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.