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All You Need Is Love - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2008 - MyArtBroker

All You Need Is Love
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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121 x 91cm, Edition of 50, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 50
Year: 2008
Size: H 121cm x W 91cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: December 2024
Value Trend:
-12% AAGR

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
December 2024
Phillips Hong Kong
Hong Kong
$13,000
$15,000
$20,000
September 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
May 2015
Artcurial
France
April 2015
Christie's Shanghai
China
April 2015
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2015
Phillips New York
United States
October 2014
Phillips New York
United States
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The value of Damien Hirst's All You Need Is Love (signed) is estimated to be worth between £12,000 and £18,000. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once at an average selling price of £12,141. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £12,141 in November 2019 to £22,000 in September 2022. The current average annual growth rate is -12%. This screenprint, created in 2008, is rare, with an auction history of seven total sales since its entry to the market in October 2014. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Meaning & Analysis

Reminiscent of his series of paintings entitled The Four Elements (Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Green and Blue) from 2005, All You Need Is Love depicts the butterflies as though trapped on flypaper. Works such as this were intended to ‘look like an accident of paint with butterflies stuck on it,’ according to the artist. The butterfly is among Hirst’s most famous motifs, emblematic of the fleetingness of life and the romance of death.

This print takes the optimistic sentiments of the Beatles for its title and fuses this with Hirst’s subtle reflections on mortality. The butterflies appear to be suspended in celebration, their wings retaining their vibrance even in death. Hirst uses the butterfly motif throughout his artistic oeuvre as a ‘universal trigger.’ This motif helps the artist to explore the uncertainties at the core of human experience: love, life, death, loyalty and betrayal through unconventional media.

  • 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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