Perfect Day

细节

Damien Hirst (b. 1965)
Perfect Day
signed 'Damien Hirst' (on the reverse)
butterflies and household gloss on canvas
48 x 48in. (121.9 x 121.9cm.)
Executed in 2005

来源

Gagosian Gallery, London.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005.

注意事项

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

荣誉呈献

Beatriz Ordovás

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拍品专文

The butterfly is one of Damien Hirst's most enduring motifs, first appearing in his now legendary installation In and Out of Love in 1991, where the artist transformed the interior of a London space from gallery to exotic habitat, with the installation of live butterflies exhibited alongside monochromatic butterfly paintings. Butterflies have come to represent a symbol of hope, beauty, and the fragility of life for Hirst, and speak to the artist's ongoing investigation into the dichotomy of love and death, timelessness and mortality. For Hirst, the butterfly is a perfect symbol, capable of conveying the inherent oppositional forces that are the hallmark of his works.