Live Auction 5548Post-War & Contemporary Art
Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 71

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Untitled (Birthday Card Suite)

Closed16 September 2010

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GBP 217,250

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Untitled (Birthday Card Suite)
household gloss paint and butterflies on shaped canvas in artist's frame
84¼ x 84¼in. (214.3 x 214.3cm.)
Executed in 1999

White Cube, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's London, 10 February 2005, lot 60.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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 I'm 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.'"

(Damien Hirst, quoted in exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, Damien Hirst: No Sense of Absolute Corruption, 1996, p.116-17).