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Reveal
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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47 x 39cm, Edition of 45, Etching

Medium: Etching

Edition size: 45

Year: 2009

Size: H 47cm x W 39cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: October 2024

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October 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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March 2023
Cottone Auctions
United States
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The value of Damien Hirst's Reveal (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,750 and £4,100. This artwork has shown a consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 8%. This etching print, created in 2009, has an auction history of two sales, both in the last 12 months. The hammer price in the last 12 months has ranged from £3,200 in November 2024 to £3,200 in March 2023. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £3,731. Reveal is part of a limited edition of 45 and is a rare find on the market.

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Meaning & Analysis

Reveal is part of Hirst’s Butterfly series, a collection of etchings which all showcase the natural beauty of the butterfly. The butterfly is an insect that has become closely associated with Hirst and his visual language. Alongside skulls and diamonds, butterflies are one of the artist's most well-known motifs. Hirst’s most iconic use of butterflies was arguably in 1991, when the artist produced an installation in which butterflies emerged from pupae attached to white painted canvases kept in a humid exhibition room. The artist also created the Kaleidoscope paintings, in which he produced mesmerising patterns of concentric circles composed of butterfly wings.

For Hirst, butterflies embody the fragility of life because they retain an iridescent beauty even in death. The use of butterflies enables the artist to explore questions of life and death throughout his artworks, something important for Hirst as he explains: “art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else.”

  • 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.