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Damien Hirst
"Cant see the wood for the trees"

1996

About the Item

Pencil on paper. Darbyshire framed. 75 x 110 cm Science Sticker verso. PROVENANCE: Gift from the artist to the present owner. Private sales Sothebys. Darbyshire framed. SCIENCE work ref number 1659 (HIAC). In 2008 Hirst auctioned his own works direcly at Sothebys in the sale exhibition called "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" - among those works a few of the other large scale drawings (same size) from The Corpus Drawings exhibited alongside this at Gagosian. Selling prices 150.000 - 200.000 GBP. One of the reasons that Hirst´s large drawings are so expensive is for the simple reason that demand is hign but supply is very low. Add to this that drawings unlike many other works are from the hand of the artist and not assistants. From "The Artwolf" "Hirst plays out his ideas through image as well as text with the urgency and immediacy of a child whose irrepressible, exhaustive imagination is engaged in a constant, passionate pursuit to describe, demarcate, question, invent, discover and even divine. In Can't See the Wood for the Trees (1996), he gives poetic insight into the conceptual basis of his drawings, chronicling their importance in the developmental process of his work, "constructing spaces, drawings for sculptures, ideas become reality, making spaces, ideas made real, in search of reality, looking for Mr. Goodsex, nothing is a problem for me, he tried to internalize everything, from head to paper." Provenance Exhibited: Corpus: Drawings 1981 – 2006 14 September 2006 – 28 October 2006 Solo Exhibition. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, United States. Literature Damien Hirst "Corpus: Drawings 1981 – 2006". Full page. Therese Möllenhoff: "Damien Hirst i Astrup Fearnley samlingen" 2015
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