Name: Elaidoyl Chloride
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Damien Hirst's Elaidoyl Chloride (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,350 and £5,000. This woodcut print, created in 2011, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 5%. The hammer price over the past 12 months has been £3,829, across a total of 1 sale. Since its initial sale on 16th April 2025, this artwork has been sold 1 time. This work is part of a limited edition of 55.

Meaning & Analysis

Elaidoyl Chloride is a woodcut print from Damien Hirst’s 40 Woodcut Spots series from 2011. The print is a square composition with four circles positioned in each corner. Set against a plain white backdrop, the spots are depicted in flattened colours of yellow, red and navy blue. Using contrasting colours and a methodical composition, this print is an exploration of colour and form that is distinctly Hirstian.

As with all of the spot paintings that Hirst has produced in his career, this print is formulaic and crisp in form. The spots are a perfect circle and semi-circle set against a clinical white backdrop. Their clean edges and bright, flat colours indicate a lack of human touch in the production of this print. Hirst in fact employed assistants to produce them and the paintings are painstaking and laborious to produce.

The formulaic compositions of the 40 Woodcut Spots series explore the boundaries between aesthetics and science and are based in Hirst’s fascination with colour combinations and harmony. The series embodies Hirst’s artistic oeuvre that interrogates the intersections between the scientific and the artistic that are wrongly assumed to be oppositional in contemporary culture.