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Utopia - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2012 - MyArtBroker

Utopia
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£5,000-£7,500Value Indicator

$10,000-$15,000 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,500 Value Indicator

¥45,000-¥70,000 Value Indicator

6,000-9,000 Value Indicator

$50,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

¥970,000-¥1,460,000 Value Indicator

$6,000-$9,500 Value Indicator

-5% AAGR

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Medium: Digital Print

Edition size: 55

Year: 2012

Size: H 69cm x W 83cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Utopia (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,000 and £7,500. This digital print artwork, created in 2012, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in February 2013. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £3,992 in October 2022 to £4,192 in October 2022. The average annual growth rate of this work is -5%. This is a rare piece with an auction history of 10 total sales. 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
October 2022Sotheby's New York United States
January 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2015Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
November 2014Artcurial France
October 2014Sotheby's New York United States
June 2014Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
February 2013Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Pharmaceutical iconography has been a prominent theme throughout Hirst’s artistic oeuvre. Notably, the artist’s first solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1991 featured numerous glass fronted cabinets displaying empty medicine boxes. Later, one of Hirst’s sculpture from 2000, The Void, appeared as the artist’s first pill cabinet work. Indeed, Utopia is an image that directly references this earlier work, showing the painted pills as little sculptures and the mirrored back of the cabinet to create a visually complexing work.

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.”

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