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Sandwich
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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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 Sandwich (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,500. This screenprint, created in 1999, has shown consistent value growth and an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work has an auction history of seven total sales since its entry to the market in September 2011. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,800 in January 2021 to £13,000 in September 2022. The average return to the seller for this piece is £6,407. 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
September 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
January 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
January 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
April 2018Phillips London United Kingdom
December 2017Pierre Bergé & Associates Paris France
September 2011Christie's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

'Sandwich' 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 word ‘Saquinavir’ sits awkwardly beneath the artwork title.

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.

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