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Damien Hirst H17-4 Civilisation Exploding For Sale
Damien Hirst
H17-4 Civilisation Exploding, 2024
Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
56 1/4 x 44 1/8 in 143 x 112 cm
Edition
Edition of 507
About this work
H17-4 Civilisation Exploding is a giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag created by Damien Hirst in 2024, the final work in his H17 Civilisation series. Produced in an edition of 507 and measuring 56¼ by 44⅛ inches, the print concludes the series' narrative arc — from rising through falling, through explanation, to this ultimate moment of explosive dissolution and transformation. As the culminating work in the series, Civilisation Exploding carries the accumulated weight of the preceding three prints and announces a formal and conceptual climax. The Civilisation series engages with the fundamental dynamics of human civilization — its building and breaking, its aspiration and fragility. In Civilisation Exploding, Hirst arrives at the moment of rupture: not mere decline, but explosive release. Yet within his framework of the necessity of hope, this explosion need not be read as simply catastrophic — an explosion can also be a release of energy, a dispersal that contains within it the seeds of new formation. The Cotton Smooth Rag substrate provides the warmth and tonal richness appropriate to a work of this scale and ambition, and the giclée process ensures the fidelity and longevity of the reproduction. Damien Hirst is one of the most celebrated and internationally recognized artists of the contemporary period. His Civilisation series, conceived and released in 2024, represents a significant recent development in his ongoing engagement with the fundamental questions of human existence. H17-4 Civilisation Exploding, as the concluding work in this important series, holds a particular significance in the context of his printed oeuvre — it is a statement of culmination, an ending that encompasses within it the possibility of beginning again.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Giclée print on Cotton Smooth Rag
- Edition
- Edition of 507
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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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