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Studio Half Skull Half Face With Diamond dust - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2009 - MyArtBroker

Studio Half Skull Half Face With Diamond dust
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£4,650-£7,000Value Indicator

$9,000-$14,000 Value Indicator

$8,500-$12,500 Value Indicator

¥45,000-¥60,000 Value Indicator

5,500-8,500 Value Indicator

$45,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

¥880,000-¥1,320,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 2009

Size: H 69cm x W 92cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Studio Half Skull Half Face With Diamond dust (signed) is estimated to be worth between £4,650 and £7,000. This screenprint, created in 2009, has an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market in April 2015. The current average annual growth rate of this artwork is not available. The hammer price for this piece in the last five years has ranged from £1,222 in October 2016 to £3,508 in March 2019. The average return to the seller over the past five years is £3,365. This work is part of a limited edition of 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2021Stockholms Auction House Sweden
April 2015Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

The piece is emblematic of Hirst’s fascination with questions of life and death which the artist frequently explores throughout his works. The skull acts as a memento mori, a visual reminder of the inevitability of death. By making a skull into art, Hirst appears to celebrate life in the face of death, encouraging the viewer not to fear the inevitable end of life.

Skulls are one of Hirst’s best-known motifs and are frequently incorporated into his artworks. The most iconic use of the skull was in For the Love for God, made in 2007, in which Hirst encrusted a human skull with over eight thousand diamonds. The piece broke records for being the most expensive contemporary artwork in the world at the time. Other series by Hirst which take skulls as their artistic inspiration are The Dead series (2009) and I Once Was What You Are, You Will Be What I Am (2007).

  • 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.