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Opium - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2000 - MyArtBroker

Opium
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

£5,500-£8,500Value Indicator

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48 x 43cm, Edition of 500, Photographic print

Medium: Photographic print
Edition size: 500
Year: 2000
Size: H 48cm x W 43cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2025
Value Trend:
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2025
Phillips New York
United States
£4,489
£5,281
£6,707
February 2025
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
December 2024
Wright
United States
May 2024
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
June 2022
Bonhams New Bond Street
United Kingdom
May 2022
Van Ham Fine Art Auctions
Germany
January 2022
Phillips London
United Kingdom
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The value of Damien Hirst’s Opium (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,500. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,500 in May 2024 to £8,500 in June 2022. This photographic print, created in 2000, has shown a consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10%. This work has a strong auction history, having been sold 48 times since its initial sale in March 2006. In the last 12 months, the artwork has sold 3 times, with an average return to the seller of £5,028. The edition size of Opium is limited to 500.

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Meaning & Analysis

The Spots paintings, on which this set of prints are based, form the basis for an endless exploration of colour and form. Indeed, Hirst has only occasionally halted production of his Spots paintings in his career, continually returning to them with a new variation, each associated with a specific drug group.

Hirst has commented on the exploration of colour in his Spots paintings, explaining, “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.”

  • 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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