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Gold Tears - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2012 - MyArtBroker

Gold Tears
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£7,000-£10,500Value Indicator

$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator

$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥90,000 Value Indicator

8,500-12,500 Value Indicator

$70,000-$100,000 Value Indicator

¥1,350,000-¥2,030,000 Value Indicator

$8,500-$13,000 Value Indicator

5% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Foil Block

Edition size: 55

Year: 2012

Size: H 86cm x W 71cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Gold Tears (signed) is estimated to be worth between £7,000 and £10,500. This foil block artwork, created in 2012, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. This work has sold 3 times at auction since its initial sale in November 2019. The hammer price over the last five years has ranged from £4,946 in November 2020 to £4,946 in November 2020, with an average return to the seller of £4,204. 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
February 2025Phillips New York United States
April 2024Phillips New York United States
November 2020Wright United States
November 2020Rago United States
November 2019Bonhams New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Diamonds have featured in one of Hirst’s most enigmatic works, For The Love Of God from 2007 that is a sculpture of a skull entirely covered in diamonds. For Hirst, diamonds are the ultimate expression of positivity and perfection in the face of death. Gold Tears is indicative of this sentiment, notably in its title, making clear the ambiguity between eternal beauty and the melancholic realisation of loss inherent to eternity.

Gold Tears, as with other prints in the Utopia series, brings Hirst’s obsession with themes around death to the fore. This print in its unwavering glory and beauty points to the way that behind the shiny, glittery surface, there may be no meaning at all. Although different in subject matter to the depictions of pills in the series, Gold Tears similarly looks to themes of mortality, addiction and the human condition that make this print both complex and mysterious.

  • 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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