Lot 352
  • 352

Damien Hirst

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Damien Hirst
  • Beautiful Blood Under the Rainbow Painting
  • household gloss and credit card on canvas
  • diameter: 60 in. 152.4 cm.
  • Executed in 2005.

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Catalogue Note

"I want to say something about Hirst's spin paintings: the abstract works made by placing the canvas on a spinning turntable then hurling paint over the surface, so the work is painted by centrifugal force. It was as if Hirst had taken all the slow, hard-won emotion that an artist like Howard Hodgkin worked so long to infuse into his canvases, and distilled it into one 20-second rush of ecstatic pleasure, the visual equivalent of a rush of cocaine." - Richard Dorment