Dome
Dome
Signed Print
Damien Hirst
£17,000-£25,000Value
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$30,000-$50,000 Value Indicator
$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator
¥150,000-¥220,000 Value Indicator
€20,000-€29,000 Value Indicator
$170,000-$250,000 Value Indicator
¥3,160,000-¥4,650,000 Value Indicator
$21,000-$30,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Etching
Format: Signed Print
Year: 2009
Size: H 119cm x W 116cm
Edition size: 59
Signed: Yes
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The value of Damien Hirst's Dome (signed) is estimated to be worth between £16,000 to £25,000. This etching from 2009 has only been sold twice at auction to date, with the first sale recorded in November 2016. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 59.
Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Dome - Signed Print | |||
| November 2016 | Rosebery's Fine Art Auctioneers - United Kingdom | Dome - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
Dome is an etching from Damien Hirst’s Sanctum series from 2009 that shows a yellow butterfly in the centre of an intricate kaleidoscopic pattern created out of butterfly wings. The butterfly wings are depicted in various shades of blue, purple and pink and the geometric composition is made up of concentric circles.
Evocative of stained glass windows in Gothic architecture, Dome explores tensions between the scientific and the aesthetic. The wings used to create the geometric pattern appear like insects on display in a natural history museum. The aesthetic comes into play in the creation of a beautiful pattern exuding kinetic energy that is exciting and mesmerising to look at.
For Hirst, the butterfly is a ‘universal trigger’ that many people share in finding attractive and joyous. Recalling someone once saying to him: ‘Butterflies are beautiful, but it’s a shame they have disgusting hairy bodies in the middle,’ Hirst in works like this chose only to display the dazzling wings in Dome. Across the series, the butterfly wing is rendered unrecognisable when viewed at a distance and as part of a larger intricate pattern.
