{"id":787,"date":"2008-08-03T20:04:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/08\/damien-hirst-on-economics\/"},"modified":"2008-08-03T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T03:04:14","slug":"damien-hirst-on-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/03\/damien-hirst-on-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Hirst on Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style: italic\" class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2008\/jul\/29\/art?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">from The Guardian UK<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: left; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; min-height: 48px; border-color: #d1008b; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"article-header\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia; font-size: 24px; line-height: 28px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Golden calf, bull&#8217;s heart, a new shark: Hirst&#8217;s latest works may fetch \u00a365m<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-size: 1.335em; line-height: 1.25; padding-bottom: 30px; color: #666666; width: 450px; margin: 0px\" id=\"stand-first\">Artist bypasses galleries and dealers to go straight to Sotheby&#8217;s auction<br style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><br style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2008\/jul\/29\/damien.hirst?picture=336031251\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" target=\"_blank\">In pictures: Hirst&#8217;s new works<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; list-style-type: none; padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 2px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 12px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; min-height: 36px; border-color: #d1008b\" class=\"article-attributes\">\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; display: block; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/maevkennedy\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Maev Kennedy}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{Maev Kennedy}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}\" target=\"_blank\">Maev Kennedy<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; display: inline; font-weight: normal; font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.25; border-color: #999999; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"publication\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/theguardian\" title=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; text-decoration: none; color: #005689; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" name=\"&amp;lid={contentTypeByline}{The Guardian}&amp;lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" id=\"article-wrapper\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Guardian\/Pix\/pictures\/2008\/07\/29\/hirst460x276.jpg\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" alt=\"The Kingdom, by Damien Hirst\" height=\"271\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-family: arial, sans-serif; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: #999999; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; font-size: 0.857em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"caption\">The Incredible Journey, by Damien Hirst. An auction at Sotheby&#8217;s in September will sell more than 200 pieces of the artist&#8217;s work. Photograph: Sotheby&#8217;s\/PA<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">A small menagerie of new Damien Hirst pickled animals took a bow yesterday, including a new shark, a zebra, a calf with solid gold horns and hoofs valued at up to \u00a312m, and even a unicorn &#8211; a white foal fitted with a resin horn, rather than an apparition from a fairytale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">All have been churned out by his small army of assistants this year for an auction at Sotheby&#8217;s in September which will sell more than 200 pieces. The auction is predicted to raise \u00a365m, comfortably setting a new world record for the artist, and blazing a trail which other artists will watch with interest, of bypassing the gallery and dealer system and going straight to auction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Larry Gagosian said his gallery would probably be buying: &#8220;He can certainly count on us to be in the room with paddle in hand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2008\/jul\/29\/damien.hirst?picture=336031054\" title=\"Damien Hirst's Aurothioglucose. Signed, titled and dated 2008 on the backing board. Household gloss and enamel paint on canvas (spot size four inches). Estimated price: \u00a3400,000 to \u00a3600,000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/Guardian\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2008\/jul\/28\/damien.hirst\/h1-3835.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"252\" width=\"315\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sotheby&#8217;s and Hirst have been forging an equally intense relationship. Earlier this year he joined with the singer Bono to lead the RED charity auction at Sotheby&#8217;s in New York, which raised over $42m (\u00a321m) with donations from Banksy, Marc Quinn and Anish Kapoor, the most successful charity art auction ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Last year Hirst briefly set the auction record at Sotheby&#8217;s &#8211; \u00a39.65m for Lullaby Spring, a medicine cabinet &#8211; for any work by a living artist. However, he was knocked off his perch within a few months by the American pop artist Jeff Koons, whose Hanging Heart sold at another Sotheby&#8217;s auction in New York for $23.6m, leaving New York dealer Richard Feigen to include both, along with Andy Warhol, on his personal list of the world&#8217;s most over-valued artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">&#8220;Damien Hirst is still an artist punching above his weight &#8211; this is a body of work which takes him into new realms,&#8221; [Oliver Barker, senior international specialist at the auction house]\u00a0added. &#8220;It would be so easy to say we&#8217;ve seen it all before with Hirst, but I think people will be blown away by the scale and ambition of this collection. I think he&#8217;s interested in getting work into parts of the world that have not had the opportunity of buying major pieces before, including India, China and Russia &#8211; and we&#8217;ve certainly had a lot of interest from collectors in these places.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2008\/jul\/29\/damien.hirst?picture=336031669\" title=\"Damien Hirst's Young Damien. Signed twice, titled and dated 2008 on the reverse; signed on the stretcher, oil on canvas. Estimated to fetch between \u00a3300,000 - \u00a3500,000\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/image.guim.co.uk\/Guardian\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2008\/jul\/28\/damien.hirst\/h8-5363.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"248\" width=\"315\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><strong style=\"border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Religious theme<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">The top lot, estimated at up to \u00a312m, is The Golden Calf &#8211; a title continuing Hirst&#8217;s interest in religious themes, referring to the false idol set up and worshipped by the Israelites before an enraged Moses berated them for idolatory. The piece is a tank made of glass and gold-plated steel, holding a real calf with solid 18 carat hoofs, horns and golden disc on its head. A smaller tank piece, The Immaculate Heart &#8211; Lost, a bull&#8217;s heart pierced with a dagger in formaldehyde, also plays on traditional Catholic imagery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin-bottom: 13px; position: relative; padding: 0px\">Last year he created and sold through White Cube the world&#8217;s most expensive piece of contemporary art, the platinum and diamond cast of a human skull, For The Love of God. It was sold for \u00a350m to an investment consortium, with Hirst retaining a share and persistent rumours that White Cube is also part owner.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/artanddesign\/2008\/jul\/29\/art?gusrc=rss&amp;feed=networkfront\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The Guardian<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Guardian UK Golden calf, bull&#8217;s heart, a new shark: Hirst&#8217;s latest works may fetch \u00a365m Artist bypasses galleries and dealers to go straight to Sotheby&#8217;s auctionIn pictures: Hirst&#8217;s new works Maev Kennedy The Guardian \u00a0 The Incredible Journey, by Damien Hirst. An auction at Sotheby&#8217;s in September will sell more than 200 pieces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}