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Black Utopia - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 2012 - MyArtBroker

Black Utopia
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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86 x 76cm, Edition of 55, Digital Print

Medium: Digital Print
Edition size: 55
Year: 2012
Size: H 86cm x W 76cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: December 2022
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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
December 2022
Koller Zurich
Switzerland
£5,087
£5,985
£7,481
March 2016
Christie's New York
United States
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The value of Damien Hirst's Black Utopia (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £8,500. This digital print artwork, created in 2012, has an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market in March 2016. The current average annual growth rate of this work is 10%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 55.

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Meaning & Analysis

The display of pills as high art represents the absurdity in controlling feelings in body and mind through modern medicine. Hirst has explained why he is interested in the medical pill motif saying that, “Pills are a brilliant little form, better than any minimalist art. They’re all designed to make you buy them…they come out of flowers, plants, things from the ground, and they make you feel good, you know, to just have a pill, to feel beauty.”

As with many of Hirst’s most famous works, Black Utopia foregrounds the artist’s preoccupation with the human condition. Disrupting any binary discussion of life and death through the ambivalent symbol of the medical pill, Hirst brings sickness, health, addiction and rehabilitation into dialogue with one another in this series. Black Utopia is a mesmerising and visually complex image due to the unusual display of pills in varying sizes in a mirrored cabinet.