Live Auction 1559Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Lot 261

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)

Ethyl Laurate

Closed17 October 2014

Price Realised

GBP 320,500

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Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Ethyl Laurate
household gloss on canvas
59 1/8 x 59 1/8in. (150 x 150cm.)
Executed in 2003

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004.

Specialist note

‘In the spot paintings the grid-like structure creates the beginning of a system. On each painting no two colours are the same. This ends the system; it’s a simple system. No matter how I feel as an artist or a painter, the paintings end up looking happy ... I believe painting and all art should ultimately be uplifting for a viewer. I love colour. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz’ (D. Hirst, I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 246).