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Lavender Baby
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£2,750-£4,150Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,000 Value Indicator

$4,900-$7,500 Value Indicator

¥25,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator

3,300-5,000 Value Indicator

$27,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

¥520,000-¥790,000 Value Indicator

$3,450-$5,000 Value Indicator

14% AAGR

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Medium: Aquatint

Edition size: 68

Year: 2002

Size: H 76cm x W 50cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Damien Hirst's Lavender Baby (signed) from 2002 is an aquatint print, with an estimated value between £2,750 and £4,150. This work is somewhat rare to the market, having been sold twice since its initial sale on 7th June 2010. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 68.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2019Clars Auction Gallery United States
June 2010Phillips New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Lavender Baby is directly related to Hirst’s famed spin paintings, produced with a rotating canvas attached to a spin machine, onto which he poured paint. This series of etchings was produced with copper plates attached to the machine with the spiral lines drawn with needles, screwdrivers, and other sharp tools as they spun. The process of creating these works became a performance-like ritual that continued for numerous days.

Hirst used a mixture of soft and hard ground etching to create this work, which is how the painterly splashes appear on its surface against the stricter circling lines. Also notable to this series of prints is that Hirst writes on the plates, inscribing them with titles, dates and his signature. The writing appears child-like and misshapen due to the fact that Hirst inscribed the letters onto the copperplate backwards, so that when printed they can be read from left to right.

  • 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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