Live Auction 5710Post War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 209

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Pregnanolone

Closed12 October 2012

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GBP 133,250

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Pregnanolone
household gloss on canvas
21 x 45in. (53.3 x 114.3cm.)
(3 inch spots)
Painted in 2004

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

Specialist note

'I once said that the spot paintings could be what art looks like viewed through an imaginary microscope. I love the fact that in the paintings the angst is removed... If you look closely at any one of these paintings a strange thing happens: because of the lack of repeated colours, there is no harmony. We are used to picking out chords of the same colour and balancing them with different chords of other colours to create meaning. This can't happen. So in every painting there is subliminal sense of unease; yet the colours project so much joy it's hard to feel it, but it's there.' (D. Hirst quoted in I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 246).