Love Poems

The complete set of six photogravure etchings
Medium: Photo-gravure etchings with lithographic overlay in colors on Arches paper
Year: 2014
Image: 60.6 x 60.6 cm (23 7/8 x 23 7/8 inches)
Sheet: 78×76 cm (30 3/4 x 29 7/8 inches)
Edition: 55
Artist’s Proofs: 15 AP
Publisher: The Paragon Press
Love Poems by Damien Hirst – Paragon (paragonpress.co.uk)

Signed in pencil on the front and numbered in pencil on the reverse

Including Longing; To A Stranger; A Dream; Lullaby; She Walks In Beauty; and Sweet Disorder.

 

Love Poems is a portfolio of 6 prints, characterized by hyperrealist butterflies scattered across saturated color blocked backgrounds. Each print is a perfect square and shows an array of beautifully rendered butterflies randomly placed across the print.

 

 

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Love Poems, 2014

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1. Longing

2. To A Stranger

3. A Dream

4. Lullaby

5. She Walks in Beauty

6. Sweet Disorder

 

 

 

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Auction Results

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1. Single Prints

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Christie’s London: 26 March 2024
Estimated: GBP 6,000 – 8,000
GBP 11,340

DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)
To A Stranger, from: Love Poems, 2014
Photogravure etching with lithographic overlay in colors on wove paper
Signed in pencil, numbered 47/55 on the reverse

Christie’s London: 28 September 2023
Estimated: GBP 8,000 – 12,000
GBP 10,080

DAMIEN HIRST (B. 1965)
Lullaby, from: Love Poems, 2014
Photogravure etching with lithographic overlay in colors on Arches wove paper
Signed in pencil, inscribed AP on the reverse
One of fifteen artist’s proofs aside from the edition of 55

2. Complete Sets

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Phillips London: 18 January 2024
Estimated: GBP 50,000 – 70,000
GBP 78,740

Sotheby’s New-York: 21 October 2021
Estimated: USD 50,000 – 70,000
USD 94,500

DAMIEN HIRST (b. 1965)
Love Poems, 2013-14
The complete set of six photogravure etchings with lithographic overlay printed in colors on 400gsm Vellin Arches wove paper
Each signed in pencil and numbered 6/55 on the verso