Damien Hirst

Jay Jopling Fine Art, London

Exhibition Catalogue, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Damien Hirst, 1991-1992, n.p., illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Seoul, Seoul Kukje Gallery, Border Crawl, 1995, n.p, illustration of another example
Damien Hirst and Robert Violette, Eds., I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, pp. 98-99, illustration of another example  
Elizabeth Janus, Veronica's Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, Zürich 1998, p. 143, illustration of another example
Arthur C. Danto, 'Death in the Gallery', The Nation, November 20, 2000, p. 38
Damien Hirst and Gordon Burn, On the Way to Work, London 2001, p. 34, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Zürich, Kunsthaus; Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Hypermental: Rampant reality 1950-2000, 2000-2001, p. 85, illustration of another example
Exhibition Catalogue, Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Selected Works from 1989-2004, 2004-2005, p. 51, illustration of another example

 

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is slight wear to the top left corner and there are several intermittent tiny indentations along the top, left and bottom extreme edges with associated localised lifting. There are faint traces of adhesive running 10cm. down from the top edge. There is a very fine rub mark to the right of the left figure's head. There are three tiny scratches towards the centre of the bottom edge. There are two small surface irregularities towards the bottom left hand corner and a small area of tiny splash marks towards the lower left corner. All are visible only upon close inspection.
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