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Fate
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Aquatint

Edition size: 45

Year: 2009

Size: H 30cm x W 25cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Fate (signed), an aquatint artwork from 2009, is estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,000. This artwork has sold twice at auction since its initial sale on 18th November 2010. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £3,570 in October 2021 to £5,180 in February 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 45.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2021Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
November 2010Swann Galleries United States

Meaning & Analysis

The butterfly motif is a prominent figure that Hirst has used throughout his career to bring together themes around morality, life, love, faith and aesthetics. Speaking of his obsession with butterflies Hirst has explained, “I think rather than be personal you have to find universal triggers: everyone’s frightened of glass, everyone’s frightened of sharks, everyone loves butterflies.”

Reminiscent of the work of Pop artist Andy Warhol, Hirst has created many prints like this with the same subject and composition, but with varying colour combinations. Rendering the fine detail of the butterfly wings and setting this against the stark colour background, Hirst produces an image that finds universally engaging triggers. This contrast between bold colours used for the butterfly wings and the realism in the detail, plays with Hirst’s concern with facts and truth that images are assumed to depict.

  • Damien Hirst, born in Bristol in 1965, is often hailed the enfant terrible of the contemporary art world. His provocative works challenge conventions and his conceptual brilliance spans installations, paintings, and sculptures, often exploring themes of mortality and the human experience. As a leading figure of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement in the late '80s, Hirst's work has dominated the British art scene for decades and has become renowned for being laced with controversy, thus shaping the dialogue of modern art.

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