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Damien Hirst

Rapture

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:58 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Damien Hirst

b. 1965


Rapture

butterfly wings on household gloss on canvas in artist's frame

diameter: 105 ¾ in.

268.6 cm.

Executed in 2003.


Please note this work is on view at 1334 York Avenue.

Please refer to sothebys.com for updated dimensions for this work. Please also note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Virginia.Eskridge@sothebys.com with any questions.

White Cube, London

Private Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above in 2003)

Sotheby's London, 1 July 2008, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, London (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner

London, White Cube, Damien Hirst: Romance in the Age of Uncertainty, 2003, p. 119, illustrated in color

Naples, Museo Archeologico, Damien Hirst: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Selected Works from 1989 to 2004, 2004-05, p. 190, illustrated in color and pp. 192-93, detail illustrated in color