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Nifedipine - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2012 - MyArtBroker

Nifedipine
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£4,700-£7,000Value Indicator

$9,500-$14,000 Value Indicator

$8,500-$12,500 Value Indicator

¥40,000-¥60,000 Value Indicator

5,500-8,500 Value Indicator

$45,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

¥910,000-¥1,350,000 Value Indicator

$6,000-$8,500 Value Indicator

23% AAGR

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Medium: Woodcut

Edition size: 55

Year: 2012

Size: H 15cm x W 15cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Nifedipine, a signed woodcut print from 2012, is estimated to be worth between £4,700 and £7,000. This is a rare artwork, having been sold once at auction on 13th December 2017. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or in the last five years. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 55.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2017Christie's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

As with all of the spot paintings that Hirst has produced in his career, this print is formulaic and crisp in form. The spots are a perfect circle and semi-circle set against a clinical white backdrop. Their clean edges and bright, flat colours indicate a lack of human touch in the production of this print. Hirst in fact employed assistants to produce them and the paintings are painstaking and laborious to produce.

Fascinated by intuitive colour choice from his days at Goldsmiths, Hirst claims that the spot paintings have removed any problems he previously had with colour, allowing him to present a perfect arrangement of colour that is never repeated. Hirst explains that, “mathematically, with the spot paintings, I probably discovered the most fundamentally important thing in any kind of art. Which is the harmony of where colour can exist on its own, interacting with other colours in a perfect format.”

  • 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.

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