Saturday, August 16th, 2008
Hirst to Retire…
Well, not exactly. In a recent Sotheby’s online promotional video interview, Damien Hirst revealed plans to cease production of several of his hugely successful series by the end of 2008. These include the artist’s butterfly and spin paintings, medicine cabinets, and eventually his formaldehyde animals. The announcement comes just in time for Hirst’s self-consigned fall sale at Sotheby’s, where several works from the soon to be retired series will be on auction. Scheduled for September 15th and 16th, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever will feature 223 new works by Hirst, spanning his entire creative output, and is expected to garnish an estimated $130 million. Public viewing of the exhibition runs September 5th to 15th. In addition, all lots and estimates can be viewed online now at Sotheby’s.
Watch the interview here and a video preview of the auction here. Click through for more auction pics.
Lead image via Dailylife/Reuters. All other images via Sotheby’s.
September 17th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
TAC :: BLOG » Its Hirstory said:
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