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Damien Hirst H17-1 Civilisation Rising For Sale
Damien Hirst
H17-1 Civilisation Rising, 2024
Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
56 1/4 x 44 1/8 in 143 x 112 cm
Edition
Edition of 530
About this work
H17-1 Civilisation Rising is a giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag created by Damien Hirst in 2024 as the first work in his H17 Civilisation series. Measuring an imposing 56¼ by 44⅛ inches and produced in an edition of 530, this work is one of four prints derived from Hirst's Civilisation Paintings — a body of work described as a meditation on the necessity of hope in the face of the complexities and contradictions of contemporary life. The Cotton Smooth Rag substrate lends the print a tactile warmth and depth of color appropriate to the gravity of its subject. The Civilisation Paintings represent a departure from many of Hirst's most celebrated motifs, engaging directly with political, social, and existential questions through a visual language drawing on abstraction, gestural mark-making, and richly layered color. Civilisation Rising, as the first in the series, positions the work within a narrative arc — the four prints trace a trajectory of civilizational experience from ascent through crisis and toward resolution. The title's optimism is held in productive tension with the broader series, which acknowledges the fragility of what is being built even as it celebrates the impulse to build. Damien Hirst is one of the most significant and internationally recognized artists of his generation, whose career has consistently engaged with fundamental questions of life, death, beauty, and the systems through which human civilization organizes itself. His practice spans sculpture, painting, and works on paper, and he has produced some of the most iconic and discussed artworks of the contemporary period. H17-1 Civilisation Rising, as a work from a major recent series, represents an important addition to any significant collection of Hirst's printed works.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
- Edition
- Edition of 530
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Damien Hirst is the defining figure of the Young British Artists movement and one of the most collected living artists in the world. His work spans Natural History sculptures, Spot Paintings, Butterfly Works, Spin Paintings, and pharmaceutical installations ? series that have set auction benchmarks at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips across four decades. Collections at Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Guggenheim confirm his standing as one of the essential artists of his generation.
His single-artist auction "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" generated $198 million at Sotheby's in 2008, a record that remains one of the most significant events in the contemporary art market. Major works including the Lullaby series of medicine cabinets and the Natural History formaldehyde sculptures have each achieved prices above $10 million, while his Spot Paintings and print editions sustain deep, global secondary market activity across all price points.
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