Damien Hirst

White Cube, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2006

This work appears in excellent condition overall. There are no apparent condition problems with this work. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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"I want to say something about Hirst's spin paintings: the abstract works made by placing the canvas on a spinning turntable then hurling paint over the surface, so the work is painted by centrifugal force. It was as if Hirst had taken all the slow, hard-won emotion that an artist like Howard Hodgkin worked so long to infuse into his canvases, and distilled it into one 20-second rush of ecstatic pleasure, the visual equivalent of a rush of cocaine." - Richard Dorment