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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 47 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Untitled

Closed14 October 2011

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GBP 301,250

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Untitled
butterflies and household gloss on canvas
83 7/8 x 85in. (213 x 216cm.)
Executed in 2000

White Cube, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2000.

Specialist note

'[Love] seems so difficult to sustain. Love is realistic; desire is unrealistic. It's easier to blindfold yourself, change your girlfriend every 6 months and not look in the mirror than to live with someone forever and see change. Although Im tired of the word Love, it's like 'God'. Instead of saying 'I love you' , I want to say, 'I'm delighted you're alive' (D. Hirst quoted in Damien Hirst: No Sense of Absolute Corruption, exh. cat., London, 1996, pp. 116-117).