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Big Love - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2010 - MyArtBroker

Big Love
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 50

Year: 2010

Size: H 154cm x W 151cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Big Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £35,000 and £50,000. This screenprint, created in 2010, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work has an auction history of 21 total sales since its entry to the market on 27th June 2011. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £38,000, across a total of 1 work sold. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £20,789 in December 2022 to £43,206 in October 2022. The average annual growth rate of this work is 3%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2024Phillips London United Kingdom
December 2022Christie's Hong Kong Hong Kong
October 2022Christie's New York United States
September 2021Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
April 2021Christie's London United Kingdom
January 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2020Christie's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Hirst sees the butterfly motif as an idealised image that is separate from the hairy-bodied insect itself: “Pretty butterflies and pretty flowers and love. The image is so drenched in all that kind of stuff that the real thing doesn’t exist. When you see the real thing, it’s hardly Playschool, which I quite liked. Because I’d called In and Out of Love and my ideas of love are really similar. I do have the birthday-card kind of idea, and then there’s the harsh reality of life.”

Speaking to the artist’s preoccupation with the concept that art mirrors life, his use of the butterfly motif has remained prominent throughout his career. Not only is each butterfly born with a unique pattern that mimics the individuality that underscores much of human life, but the butterfly for Hirst symbolises growth, change, life and death. The butterfly motif appears both in printed editions as well as in installations where visitors are situated in a room of live butterflies.

  • 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.