Live Auction 10420First Open / LDN
Damien Hirst (B. 1965)
Lot 120

Damien Hirst (B. 1965) 

Abacus - The Dream is Dead 

Closed26 March 2015

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GBP 23,750

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Damien Hirst (B. 1965) 
Abacus - The Dream is Dead 
incised with the artist’s signature, titled and numbered ‘Abacus Damien Hirst The Dream is dead 2/12’ (on the reverse)
silver 
5¾ x 5½ x 8¼in. (14.5 x 14 x 21cm.) 
Executed in 2007, this work is number two from an edition of twelve 

White Cube.
Private Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 29 June 2011, lot 117.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘I remember I was thinking that there were four important things in life: religion, love, art and science. At their best, they’re all just tools to help you find a path through the darkness. None of them really work that well, but they help. Of them all, science seems to be the one right now. Like religion, it provides the glimmer of hope that maybe it will be all right in the end’
(D. Hirst, quoted in conversation with S. O’Hagan in New Religion Damien Hirst, exh. cat., British Council, London, 2006, p. 5)