With Dead Head

Details

Damien Hirst (B. 1965)
With Dead Head
photographic print on aluminium
22½ x 30in. (57.2 x 76.2cm.)
Executed in 1991, this work is number one from an edition of fifteen

Provenance

Jay Jopling Fine Art, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1994.

Literature

D. Hirst and G. Burn (eds.), I want to spend the rest of my life everywhere, with everyone, one to one, always, forever, now, London 1997, p. 333 (another from the edition illustrated, pp. 98-99).
E. Janus (ed.), Veronica's Revenge: Contemporary Perspectives on Photography, Zurich 1998, (another from the edition illustrated, p. 143).
A.C. Danto, 'Death in the Gallery', in The Nation, 20 November 2000 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 38).
D. Hirst and G. Burn, On the Way to Work, London 2001 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 34).
C. Grunenburg, 'Laughing in the Face of Death: Damien Hirst's Self-Portrait With Dead Head', in Damien Hirst, exh. cat., Ishoj, Arken Museum of Modern Art, 2009, p. 67 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 66).
G. Thompson, 'Damien Hirst's Wonder Year', in The Jackdaw, July-August 2012.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, When Logics Die, 1991 (another from the edition exhibited).
London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Internal Affairs, 1991-1992 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Prato, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, The Reflected Image, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Seoul, Kukje Gallery, Border Crawl, 1995 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
Zurich, Kunsthalle Zürich, Auf der Spur: Kunst der 90er Jahre im Spiegel von Schweizer Sammlungen, 1998.
Zurich, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Portraits, 1998-2000 (another from the edition exhibited).
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Hypermental: wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000, von Salvador Dalí bis Jeff Koons, 2000-2001, p. 161 (illustrated, p. 85). This exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Sion, Pénitencier de Valère, Pénitencier de Valère, 2003.
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Damien Hirst: The Agony and the Ecstasy, Selected Works from 1989-2004, 2004-2005, p. 254 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 51).
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Summer Exhibition, 2008 (another from the edition exhibited).
Kiev, PinchukArtCentre, Requiem, 2009 (another from the edition exhibited, p. 30).
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Damien Hirst: Artist Rooms, 2009-2012 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Leeds, Leeds City Gallery; London, Tate Britain and Walsall, The New Art Gallery Walsall.
London, Tate Modern, Damien Hirst, 2012, pp. 12, 21-23, 28, 207 and 208, no. 10 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 20).
New York, Venus over Manhattan, À Rebours (Against the Grain), 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).
Kiev, PinchukArtCentre, Collection Platform 3: Forever Now, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited).

Special Notice

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'If you look at my face, I'm actually going: 'Quick. Quick. Take the photo.' Its worry. I wanted to show my friends, but I couldn't take all my friends there, to the morgue in Leeds. I'm absolutely terrified. I'm grinning, but I'm expecting the eyes to open and for it to go: 'Grrrrraaaaagh!'
(D. Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst and G.Burn, On the Way to Work, London 2001, p. 36).

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