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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 233

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Beautiful, I Pushed the Controls and Ahead of Me Rockets Blazed, I Don't Want to be a Dead Artist Painting

Closed15 February 2012

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GBP 241,250

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Beautiful, I Pushed the Controls and Ahead of Me Rockets Blazed, I Don't Want to be a Dead Artist Painting
signed 'Hirst' (lower edge)
gloss household paint, metallic enamel and credit cards on canvas
diameter: 84in. (213.4cm.)
Executed in 2005

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Private Collection, California.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 14 May 2009, lot 357.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'I believe painting and all art should be ultimately uplifting for a viewer. I love colour. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.' (The artist quoted in I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 246).