There is no other contemporary artist as maverick to the art market as Damien Hirst. Foremost among the Young British Artists (YBAs), a group of provocative artists who graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London in the late 1980s, Hirst ascended to stardom by making objects that shocked and appalled, and that possessed conceptual depth in both profound and prankish ways.
Hirst remains genre-defying and creates everything from sculpture, prints, works on paper and paintings to installation and objects. Another of his most celebrated series, the 'Pill Cabinets' present rows of intricate pills, cast individually in metal, plaster and resin, in sterilized glass and steel containers; Phillips New York showed the
Damien Hirst
Turps Banana 2011
Digital print in colours with screenprinted glaze, on wove paper, with full margins.I. 35.6 x 29.6 cm (14 x 11 5/8 in.)S. 50.6 x 42 cm (19 7/8 x 16 1/2 in.)Signed in black ink and numbered 6/75 in pencil (there were also 10 artist's proofs), published by Turps Banana, London (with their blindstamp), unframed.