Damien Hirst

born 1965

Untitled Collage II 1985
© Damien Hirst and Science Ltd.
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Artworks

Monument to the Living and the Dead

White canvas headed 'CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES' in black capitals, with six rows of evenly spaced coloured spots alternating with the letters A to Z and numerals 1 to 0

Controlled Substance Key Painting

A white lamb with black face and legs, preserved mid-stride in pale blue liquid inside a white-framed rectangular glass tank standing on a grey gallery floor

Away from the Flock

On display at Tate Britain part of Modern and Contemporary British Art

Three white wall-mounted cabinets with glass doors, their shelves crowded with anatomical teaching models: sliced torsos and heads, skulls, ears, hearts, bones and foetuses in pinks and creams

Trinity - Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology

Black and white photograph: a grinning teenage boy leans in cheek-to-cheek beside the severed head of a dead man propped on white cloth on a mortuary table, the corpse's eyes closed and face slumped.

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With Dead Head

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Anthraquinone-1-Diazonium Chloride

Beans & Chips

Mushroom

Artist as subject

Black and white photograph: a grinning teenage boy leans in cheek-to-cheek beside the severed head of a dead man propped on white cloth on a mortuary table, the corpse's eyes closed and face slumped.

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With Dead Head

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