Damien Hirst's large
pill cabinet work got a bid but sold for just above the low estimate making $ 5.85 m and suggesting there's been little recently to move Hirst's market out of its trading range.
Not exact matches
While you have a
cabinet filled with a variety of pain medications, it doesn't
work that way when it comes to giving your dog a pain
pill.
After the private preview, everyone retired to the second floor, where there's Pharmacy 2, the restaurant at the end of a Damien Hirst - themed Disney World ride: medicine
cabinets everywhere,
pill - shaped barstools, glass - paneled
pill works, medical gear in cases, a true»90s - style Hirst explosion of id.
Most were occupied by a single piece, which
worked well enough when it came to the suitably uncanny and forlorn sheep and pig in formaldehyde, but the medicine
cabinets, an unnecessary new series of prints of
pill box labels, and the ever vapid spin and dot paintings couldn't, on their own, hold either the space or your attention.
The Hirst
works, with titles like Happiness (1993 - 1994), are abstract depictions of mood - enhancing drugs, but they are conceptually weak and visually repellent compared to Spot Paintings and
Pill Cabinets.
Hirst's
work falls into three general categories: vitrine
works often featuring animals in formaldehyde, «spot» paintings, and
cabinet works, sculptures resembling medicine chests with
pills and various other objects.
We contextualize a monumental and significant Damien Hirst «
Pill Cabinet» alongside
works by Barnett Newman, Donald Judd and Gerhard Richter.
Paul Stolper Gallery presents exhibition of six new inkjet and foil block prints by Damien Hirst «Utopia» will display
works depicting rows of either
pills, diamonds or cigarettes arranged in metal
cabinets, together with «Till Death Do Us Part,» a series of ten foil block skulls on brightly coloured silkscreened paper.