Damien Hirst Leonardo Di Caprio spin painting portrait sells for £1million plus at auction
29 May 2023 • Mark Westall
A portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio painted by artist Damien Hirst based on his spin paintings has sold for more than £1m
Damien Hirst, born on 7 June 1965, is a prominent English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He became known as a Young British Artist (YBA) during the 1990s.
Since the late 1980s, Hirst has created installations, sculptures, paintings, and drawings exploring art, beauty, religion, science, life, and death. His works challenge contemporary belief systems, reflecting human uncertainty.
While at Goldsmiths College, Hirst curated “Freeze” in 1988, a debut exhibition for the YBAs, characterized by entrepreneurship and opposition.
His famous Spot paintings, started in 1986, feature multicolored spots on white backgrounds, showcasing his artistic brilliance. Hirst creates over a thousand Spot paintings, each painted by hand using glossy house paint.
In 2012, Gagosian exhibited over 300 Spot paintings across all its locations, solidifying Hirst’s position as a significant contemporary artist.
Throughout his career, Hirst’s work has sparked fascination and debate, eliciting varied reactions from critics and the public.
His contributions to contemporary art have left an enduring impact, making him a celebrated figure worldwide.
Damien Hirst’s journey as an artist, entrepreneur, and cultural provocateur highlights his creative ingenuity and exploration of the human condition.
29 May 2023 • Mark Westall
A portrait of Leonardo DiCaprio painted by artist Damien Hirst based on his spin paintings has sold for more than £1m
4 May 2023 • Mark Westall
NTWRK has teamed up with Interscope Records to celebrate its 30th anniversary with a new limited edition vinyl series called Interscope Reimagined. The series features world-class visual artists such as KAWS, Cecily Brown, and Damien Hirst, who have created original works of art inspired by albums and songs from Interscope artists such as Billie Eilish, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, and Snoop Dogg.
25 April 2023 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of works by Brian Clarke, who is widely regarded to be the most important artist working in stained glass today, will go on view at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery.
24 April 2023 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst’s 60ft Demon rises above the Greenwich Peninsula Damien Hirst’s, Demon the largest sculpture from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
22 April 2023 • Mark Westall
As reported by Myartbroker Damien Hirst’s The Beautiful Paintings have realised a cool $20 million.
12 April 2023 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst sculpture smashed by Rolls-Royce- A 66-year-old driver crashed her Rolls-Royce into a $3 million Damien Hirst sculpture on the… Read More
31 March 2023 • Mark Westall
HENI has released The Beautiful Paintings, the revolutionary new artwork from Damien Hirst that blurs the boundaries between digital and… Read More
30 December 2022 • Mark Westall
Our most-read posts of 2022 list is rich in stories that feature women and we are so here for it and what it says about the well-overdue evolution of the artworld.
16 November 2022 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst’s Paper Veils, a series of 300 original paintings completed in 2019, will launch the new primary art market platform… Read More
19 October 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Say what you will about Damien Hirst’s cash cow modes of production, he loves art and ploughs a good proportion of his gains back into acquiring and showing it at his purpose-built gallery halfway between Waterloo and Vauxhall.
14 October 2022 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst burned artworks from his first NFT collection, The Currency today, Tuesday 11th October 2022.
5 October 2022 • Mark Westall
Everyone knows (or should know) that Damien Hirst will be burning thousands or artworks during Frieze Week as part of his Currency art series but did you know you can also see some of his most iconic artwork during Frieze as well?
29 September 2022 • Mark Westall
The artworks include specially created pieces by British artists and celebrities including Boy George, Rankin, Ben Okri and Rosemary Clunie… Read More
22 September 2022 • Mark Westall
I’ve always found it hard to visualise numbers – and so it is with Damien Hirst’s The Currency. What does it really mean when Hirst says he’s going to burn 4,851 works? What do 10,000 works look like?
20 September 2022 • Mark Westall
Without Grenville Davey there would have been no YBAs. Grenville was the first artist to truly inspire my generation … his cool surreal circles directly led to me making my spot paintings.”
Damien Hirst
13 September 2022 • Mark Westall
An exhibition of paintings by Damien Hirst from his first NFT collection, The Currency, will open at Newport Street Gallery next week in London on Friday 23rd September
15 August 2022 • Mark Westall
In 2020, MSCHF cut out 88 spots from a Damien Hirst print and sold them for US$480 dollars each. The… Read More
27 July 2022 • Mark Westall
The year is over boom ? that was quick! and we have all had to decide: NFT or physical? The… Read More
26 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Damien Hirst and HENI will collaborate to present a unique exhibition of paintings from his first NFT collection, The Currency,… Read More
22 July 2022 • Mark Westall
Artory/Winston creates unique investment opportunities by sourcing the finest artworks with the greatest potential to grow in value and generate… Read More
9 July 2022 • Mark Westall
The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has dismantled Damien Hirst’s installation A Hundred Years (1990) in response to complaints from the animal rights group PETA…. Read More
22 June 2022 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art Basel and it’s satellite fair seem to be back to normal this year. There’s plenty of variety – more so than at Frize London last year –
13 April 2022 • daniel barnes
Back in 1991, when Damien Hirst began showing his Natural History works, the Daily Star ran the headline “£50,000 for fish without chips”.
23 March 2022 • Mark Westall
The Art Newspaper reports that the property developer Knight Dragon plans to install Damien Hirst’s 18-metre-tall bronze sculpture Demon with… Read More