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Black Utopia - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2012 - MyArtBroker

Black Utopia
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£7,000-£10,500Value Indicator

$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 55

Year: 2012

Size: H 86cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Black Utopia (signed) is estimated to be worth between £7,000 and £10,500. This digital print artwork, created in 2012, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market in March 2016. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £3,951 in April 2017 to £9,695 in October 2022. 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 2022Koller Zurich Switzerland
March 2016Christie's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

The display of pills as high art represents the absurdity in controlling feelings in body and mind through modern medicine. Hirst has explained why he is interested in the medical pill motif saying that, “Pills are a brilliant little form, better than any minimalist art. They’re all designed to make you buy them…they come out of flowers, plants, things from the ground, and they make you feel good, you know, to just have a pill, to feel beauty.”

As with many of Hirst’s most famous works, Black Utopia foregrounds the artist’s preoccupation with the human condition. Disrupting any binary discussion of life and death through the ambivalent symbol of the medical pill, Hirst brings sickness, health, addiction and rehabilitation into dialogue with one another in this series. Black Utopia is a mesmerising and visually complex image due to the unusual display of pills in varying sizes in a mirrored cabinet.

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