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Sausages - Signed Print by Damien Hirst 1999 - MyArtBroker

Sausages
Signed Print

Damien Hirst

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 150

Year: 1999

Size: H 102cm x W 153cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Damien Hirst’s Sausages (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,900 and £4,300. This screenprint, created in 1999, has shown consistent value growth and has an auction history of 10 total sales since its entry to the market on 17th May 2000. The hammer price over the past 12 months has ranged from £3,000 in June 2021 to £4,500 in January 2022. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is 2%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 150.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
May 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
January 2022Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
January 2021Phillips London United Kingdom
June 2019Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
December 2016Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris France
July 2016Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris France

Meaning & Analysis

The word ‘Sausages’ replaces the medicine name, and in place of the manufacturer's logo Hirst creates another, using artwork derived from an earlier work displaying a string of sausages in Formaldehyde. Some pharmaceutical descriptions and measurements remain: the words ‘Intraconazole 100mg per capsule’ sit awkwardly beneath the artwork title.

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.

  • 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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