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For The Love Of God (black) - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2007 - MyArtBroker

For The Love Of God (black)
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£3,000-£4,500Value Indicator

$6,000-$9,500 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

¥29,000-¥45,000 Value Indicator

3,450-5,000 Value Indicator

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¥600,000-¥890,000 Value Indicator

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33 x 24cm, Edition of 1000, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 1000
Year: 2007
Size: H 33cm x W 24cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: January 2025
Value Trend:
3% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
January 2025
Lama
United States
$3,250
$3,800
$4,850
June 2024
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
June 2024
Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers
United Kingdom
September 2023
Phillips London
United Kingdom
September 2023
Bonhams Knightsbridge
United Kingdom
July 2023
Christie's New York
United States
April 2023
Christie's Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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The value of Damien Hirst’s For The Love Of God (black) is estimated to be worth between £3,000 and £4,500. This signed screenprint, created in 2007, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £3,073, across 1 total sale. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 50 times since its initial sale in June 2010. The hammer price in the last five years has ranged from £2,326 in July 2023 to £6,000 in January 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 1,000.

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Meaning & Analysis

The diamond-encrusted skull is an image of one of Hirst’s most widely recognised sculptures For The Love Of God from 2007. Hirst cast the original work from a real human skull, purchased from a London taxidermist. The cast is made from platinum plates and is then set with diamonds, weighing a huge 1,106.18 carats. The teeth that are inserted into the jaw are those of the original skull.

For The Love Of God (black) shows the image of the sculpture with a large stone set in the centre of the skull forehead. This central stone was inspired by Hirst’s childhood memories of the comic 2000 AD. Hirst explains that the comic “used to have a character in it called Tharg the Mighty who had a circle on his forehead. He was like a kind of powerful God-like figure who controlled the universe…It kind of just looked like it needed something. A third eye; a connection to Jesus and his dad.”

  • 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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