The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
For the Love of God
Verity
Movement
Young British Artists
Awards
Turner Prize
Patron(s)
Charles Saatchi
Damien Hirst's voice
Recorded May 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs
Website
damienhirst.com
Damien Steven Hirst (/hɜːrst/; né
Brennan; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and art collector.[1] He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs) who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s.[2][3] He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth estimated at US$384 million in the 2020 Sunday Times Rich List.[4][5][6] During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.[7]
Death is a central theme in Hirst's works.[8][9] He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep, and a cow) are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. The best-known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case.
In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist[10] by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries.[11] The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction[12] as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.[11]
Since 1999, Hirst's works have been challenged and contested as plagiarised 16 times. In one instance, after his sculpture Hymn was found to be closely based on a child's toy, legal proceedings led to an out-of-court settlement.[13]
^Nicholson, Octavia. "Hirst, Damien (Steven)", Oxford Art Online (subscription). Retrieved 9 November 2008.
^"Glossary: Young British Artists (YBA)", Tate Etc.. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
^"Hirst generation missing from Turner prize 2000 shortlist", The Guardian, 14 June 2000. Retrieved 11 September 2009.
^"Damien Hirst Is Still the UK's Richest Artist—With a Net Worth of $387 Million, According to the Sunday Times's 'Rich List'". artnet News. 18 May 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
^Richard Brooks, "It's the fame I crave, says Damien Hirst", The Times, 28 March 2010
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^"Artworks | National Galleries of Scotland". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 22 April 2024.
^Brooks, Richard. "Damien Hirst's earliest painting goes on sale", The Sunday Times, 6 April 2008. Retrieved 22 March 2010.
^Barker, Godfrey; Jury, Louise."Even his fag ends sell as Hirst art auction hits £100 million", London Evening Standard, 16 September 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2009.
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^Dyer, Clare. "Hirst pays up for Hymn that wasn't his", The Guardian, 19 May 2000. Retrieved 15 September 2010.
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