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Love Is All You Need - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2016 - MyArtBroker

Love Is All You Need
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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155 x 152cm, Edition of 75, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 75
Year: 2016
Size: H 155cm x W 152cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: October 2024

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October 2024
Phillips London
United Kingdom
$26,000
$30,000
$40,000
October 2021
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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The value of Damien Hirst's Love Is All You Need (signed) is estimated to be worth between £28,000 and £45,000. Over the past 12 months, the artwork has sold once, with an average selling price of £24,000. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £24,000 in October 2024 to £60,000 in October 2021. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10%. This work is part of a limited edition of 75.

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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, Love Is All You Need depicts the butterflies as though trapped on fly-paper. 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.

The Love series takes the optimistic sentiments of the Beatles for the prints’ titles 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.