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Dumpling - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 1999 - MyArtBroker

Dumpling
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£3,150-£4,750Value Indicator

$6,000-$9,500 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

¥28,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator

3,750-5,500 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 Dumpling (signed), a screenprint from 1999, is estimated to be worth between £3,150 and £4,750. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £3,175 in May 2022 to £5,886 in October 2020. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This is a popular work, having been sold 9 times at auction since its initial sale in May 2001. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
June 2023Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2022Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
May 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2020Phillips Hong Kong Hong Kong
November 2019Christie's London United Kingdom
May 2001Christie's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

The word ‘Dumpling’ replaces the medicine name, and in place of the manufacturer's logo Hirst creates another, using his own name. Some pharmaceutical descriptions and measurements remain, the words ‘Lisinopril dihydrate’ sit awkwardly beneath the artwork title.

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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