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Damien Hirst H17-2 Civilisation Falling For Sale
Damien Hirst
H17-2 Civilisation Falling, 2024
Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
56 1/4 x 44 1/8 in 143 x 112 cm
Edition
Edition of 459
About this work
H17-2 Civilisation Falling is a giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag created by Damien Hirst in 2024, the second work in his H17 Civilisation series. Produced in an edition of 459, the print measures 56¼ by 44⅛ inches — a scale that befits the grandeur and gravity of its subject matter. Where the first work in the series, Civilisation Rising, focuses on aspiration and ascent, Civilisation Falling engages the obverse of that trajectory: decline, dissolution, the return of what has been built toward its elemental components. The visual language of Hirst's Civilisation Paintings — from which this print is derived — draws on a range of painterly traditions, from gestural abstraction to the symbolic density of historical narrative painting, rendered through the contemporary idiom Hirst has refined over his career. The Cotton Smooth Rag substrate provides an ideal support for the giclée process, preserving the full tonal range and surface complexity of the original paintings in reproduction. Civilisation Falling occupies a pivotal position in the four-part series — it is the moment of crisis, the hinge between the hope encoded in Civilisation Rising and the explanatory and explosive registers of the final two prints. Damien Hirst is one of the most celebrated artists of his generation, whose practice has consistently engaged with the largest human questions — life and death, order and chaos, beauty and decay — through a range of media and conceptual approaches. His works on paper, including both the Spot Prints and the Civilisation series, demonstrate the depth of his engagement with printmaking as a medium capable of carrying serious philosophical and emotional weight. H17-2 Civilisation Falling represents a compelling opportunity to acquire a work that engages with the pressing questions of contemporary civilization at an ambitious scale.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
- Edition
- Edition of 459
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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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