Damien Hirst; Opium

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"Opium"
Opium Colour lambda print Signed lower right
Image Size 48 by 43cm
Professionally mounted, complete with box frame
Executed in 2000, this work is from an edition of 500 Provenance: Eyestorm, London.
The work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Eyestorm

Damien Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent member of the group known as "Young British Artists" (or YBAs).
Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned.
During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003
and the relationship ended.
Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow)
are preserved, sometimes having been dissected, in formaldehyde. The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,
a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine became the iconic work of British art in the 1990s,
and the symbol of Britart worldwide. Its sale in 2004 made him the world's second most expensive living artist after Jasper Johns.
In June 2007, Hirst overtook Jasper Johns when his Lullaby Spring sold for £9.65 million at Sotheby's in London. On 30 August 2007,
Hirst outdid his previous sale of Lullaby Spring with For The Love of God which sold for £50 million to an unknown investment group.
He is also known for "spin paintings," made on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings," which are rows of randomly-coloured circles.
In September 2008, he took an unprecedented move for an artist of his status by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever,
at Sotheby's by auction and by-passing his long-standing galleries. The auction exceeded all predictions, raising £111 million ($198 million),
breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns
and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.

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