DAMIEN HIRST | beautiful, all round, lovely day, big toys for big kids, Frank and Lorna, when we are no longer children we are already dead, painting

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Sold

310,000 GBP

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Description

Damien Hirst
beautiful, all round, lovely day, big toys for big kids, Frank and Lorna, when we are no longer children we are already dead, painting
signed on the reverse
household gloss on canvas
183 by 183 cm. 72 by 72 in.
Executed in 1998.

Provenance

A gift from the artist to the present owners

Exhibited

Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, on loan, April 2000 - May 2003 Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Damien Hirst, The Agony and the Ecstasy: Selected Works from 1989-2004, October 2004 - January 2005, pp. 200-01, illustrated in colour

Literature

The RT Hon Chris Smith, MP, Creative Britain, London 1998, illustrated in colour (cover)