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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 39

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Gold Thioglucose

Fermé28 March 2012

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Gold Thioglucose
signed 'Damien Hirst' (lower right); numbered '9/45' (lower left)
colour screenprint and gold leaf on paper
image: 21 7/8 x 29 5/8in. (55.5 x 75.3cm.)
sheet: 29 7/8 x 37½in. (75.8 x 95.3cm.)
Executed in 2008, this work is number nine from an edition of forty-five

Other Criteria, London.
Private Collection, London.

Note du spécialiste

Executed in 2008, Gold Thioglucose presents the viewer with Damien Hirst's iconic spots, rows of circles of single colours arranged equidistant from each other across a picture plane. Here, those spots have been granted a new transcendent dimension, shown against a backdrop of gold leaf. This adds a sensual shimmer to the work, granting a new lustre to the pools of colour which punctuate the surface so exuberantly. Meanwhile, the inclusion of this gold invokes a host of references, allowing Hirst to weave his complex net of associations into a picture which appears deliberately inscrutable, which seems to plead ignorance, which demands that we focus on its seductive surface rather than plunging into the realm of associations.