Name: For The Love Of God, (side, white)
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

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The value of Damien Hirst’s For The Love Of God, (side, white) (signed) is estimated to be worth between £4,650 and £7,000. This screenprint, created in 2007, is a rare artwork with an auction history of one sale on 5th December 2015. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or in the last five years. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 1,000.

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Hammer Price

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July 2016

Hampel Fine Art Auctions

Germany

December 2015

Ketterer Kunst Hamburg

Germany

Meaning & Analysis

For the Love of God, White, is a screen print from 2007 from Damien Hirst’s For The Love Of God series. The print shows a photographic portrait of a human skull viewed from a side on a diagonal angle and set against a white backdrop. The skull is entirely covered with diamonds and set with a large stone in the centre of the forehead.

This print is based on Hirst’s famous diamond-encrusted skull sculpture, For The Love Of God from 2007. The original sculpture is one of Hirst’s most seminal works in his entire oeuvre and is notable for its grandiose and excessive use of materials. For Hirst, diamonds are the ultimate expression of positivity and perfection in the face of death. Fascinated by death as a subject for artistic investigation, Hirst does not represent decay or fear of death with his diamond encrusted piece, but instead transforms this image of mortality into an aestheticized symbol.

Much of Hirst’s printed editions are reminiscent of his most famous sculptural and installation works, indicating his obsession with certain motifs and themes surrounding life and death. Every print in the For The Love Of God series depicts a variation on the For The Love Of God sculpture. This particular print is rendered in a hyperrealist photographic style.