Beautiful, I Pushed the Controls and Ahead of Me Rockets Blazed, I Don't Want to be a Dead Artist Painting

Details

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Beautiful, I Pushed the Controls and Ahead of Me Rockets Blazed, I Don't Want to be a Dead Artist Painting
signed 'Hirst' (lower edge)
gloss household paint, metallic enamel and credit cards on canvas
diameter: 84in. (213.4cm.)
Executed in 2005

Provenance

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Private Collection, California.
Anon. sale, Christie's New York, 14 May 2009, lot 357.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

'I believe painting and all art should be ultimately uplifting for a viewer. I love colour. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.' (The artist quoted in I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 246).

Beautiful, I Pushed the Controls and Ahead of Me Rockets Blazed, I Don't Want to be a Dead Artist Painting

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