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Cornish Pasty - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 1999 - MyArtBroker

Cornish Pasty
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£3,500-£5,500Value Indicator

$7,000-$11,000 Value Indicator

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 150

Year: 1999

Size: H 153cm x W 102cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst's Cornish Pasty (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,500 and £5,500. This screenprint, created in 1999, has an auction history of three total sales since its entry to the market on 16th October 2010. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or the last five years. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
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Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
March 2016Christie's New York United States
September 2011Christie's New York United States
October 2010Sotheby's Online United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The words ‘Cornish Pasty’ and ‘Peas’ replace the medicine names, though pharmaceutical details such as ‘Rifampicin B.P.’ remain, alongside the words ‘To be taken by mouth’. In place of the manufacturer's logo creates another, using his own name.

In this series Hirst takes everyday, cafeteria foods and holds them up to Christian faith and the perceived glamour of pharmaceuticals. He shows us how these medicines have become commonplace, their packaging familiar and the contents trusted. For Hirst our relationship with medicine is a belief system, very much like art or religion.

Pharmaceutical imagery, glamour and idolisation can be found early in the artist’s career in his Medicine Cabinet series. Empty medicine packaging is displayed in cabinets under titles including ‘Holidays’, ‘New York’ and ‘God’. Later, he uses similar cabinets to display brightly coloured pills and cubic zirconia.

Hirst’s ongoing questioning of human faith can be found again and again throughout his work. Signed and unnumbered (as is true of all prints in the series) this print can be considered an important piece within the artist’s catalogue raisonné.

  • 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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