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Hell
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£3,700-£5,500Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$10,000 Value Indicator

¥35,000-¥50,000 Value Indicator

4,450-6,500 Value Indicator

$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥700,000-¥1,040,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 55

Year: 2012

Size: H 62cm x W 71cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Hell (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,700 and £5,500. This digital print artwork, created in 2012, is a rare piece with an auction history of one sale in July 2017. The current annual average growth rate of this work is not available. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 55.

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Auction Results

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July 2017Koller Zurich Switzerland

Meaning & Analysis

This print is a cropped image of Hirst’s earlier installation Dead Ends, Died Out, Examined from 1993 that displayed a series of stubs in a glass-fronted cabinet. The motif of cigarettes and smoking have featured repeatedly throughout Hirst’s artistic oeuvre as a symbol of the unacknowledged harm that they cause to the body. Of this Hirst has said, ‘Smoking may do more harm than heroin, although they both end in death. Legal drugs are far more frightening than the illegal kind. If you’re not breaking the law, it’s harder to know where the boundaries are.’

Hirst’s fascination with death comes to the fore in Hell. Each cigarette stub is unique in size, colour and brand, and the remnants of tobacco, filter, paper and ash add to this sense of ephemerality and individuality. This display of the cigarettes that can no longer be used represent the way they have sustained a life of their own that extinguishes a bit of the smoker’s life.

  • 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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