Beans And Chips
Beans And Chips
Signed Print
Damien Hirst
£7,000-£10,500
$14,000-$21,000 Value Indicator
$12,500-$19,000 Value Indicator
¥60,000-¥100,000 Value Indicator
€8,500-€13,000 Value Indicator
$70,000-$100,000 Value Indicator
¥1,360,000-¥2,040,000 Value Indicator
$9,000-$13,500 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 150
Year: 1999
Size: H 122cm x W 90cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2022 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| January 2021 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2019 | Forum Auctions London | United Kingdom | |||
| November 2011 | Bonhams New Bond Street | United Kingdom | |||
| September 2011 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| June 2008 | Phillips London | United Kingdom | |||
| April 2008 | Christie's London | United Kingdom |
Meaning & Analysis
Created in 1999, published as an edition of 150, The Last Supper is a series of 13 silkscreen prints by artist Damien Hirst. Imitative of pharmaceutical packaging, Beans and Chips uses a simple, limited pallet of three colours. The artist’s name is rearranged to ‘Damien & Hirst’ in place of the manufacturer's name and logo, and the words ‘Beans and Chips’ replace the medicine packaging contents.
In this series Hirst takes everyday, cafeteria foods and holds them up to Christian faith and the perceived glamour of pharmaceuticals. He shows us how these medicines have become commonplace, their packaging familiar and the contents trusted. For Hirst our relationship with medicine is a belief system, very much like art or religion.
Pharmaceutical imagery, glamour and idolisation can be found early in the artist’s career in his Medicine Cabinet series. Empty medicine packaging is displayed in cabinets under titles including ‘Holidays’, ‘New York’ and ‘God’. Later, he uses similar cabinets to display brightly coloured pills and cubic zirconia.
Hirst’s ongoing questioning of human faith can be found again and again throughout his work. Signed and unnumbered (as is true of all prints in the series) this print can be considered an important piece within the artist’s catalogue raisonné.
