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Methamphetamine - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2004 - MyArtBroker

Methamphetamine
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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178 x 86cm, Edition of 115, Aquatint

Medium: Aquatint
Edition size: 115
Year: 2004
Size: H 178cm x W 86cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2025
Value Trend:
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Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
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April 2025
Christie's New York
United States
£22,460
£26,424
£33,295
April 2024
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2024
Christie's New York
United States
April 2023
Christie's New York
United States
January 2023
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2022
Christie's London
United Kingdom
September 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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Damien Hirst's Methamphetamine (signed), a 2004 aquatint artwork, is estimated to be worth between £29,000 and £45,000. This piece has been sold 25 times at auction since its initial sale in October 2007. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £14,440 in August 2021 to £61,270 in March 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is 7% and the edition size is limited to 115.

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Meaning & Analysis

Hirst’s artistic output is on a large enough scale to employ assistants across three different studios and as such, most of the Spots paintings were produced collaboratively. After painting a small number himself, Hirst created a system with a few basic rules that allowed for others to produce the Spots paintings for him. Every spot in each piece is a perfect circle, each the same size, hand-painted and arranged in a grid. The Spots paintings were ultimately about an exploration of colour combinations, with every spot on each canvas a different colour. The series therefore has become a set of works with endless possibilities and combinations.

Hirst has commented on the way in which these paintings are deceptively simple: “If you look closely at any one of these paintings, a strange thing happens: because of the lack of repeated colours there is no harmony. We are used to picking out chords of other colours to create meaning. This can’t happen. So in every painting there is a subliminal sense of unease: the colours project so much joy it’s hard to feel it, but it’s there. The horror underlying everything. The horror that can overwhelm everything at any moment.”

  • 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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