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The shark

Tuesday 27 March 2012

The details provided here relate to the artwork in the Damien Hirst 360 video tour and the exhibition at Tate Modern.

All artworks copyright:
Damien Hirst © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2012

Exhibited works:

Spot Painting
1986 Household gloss on board
243.8 x 365.8
Collection of the artist

Kitchen Cupboard
1987
Formica, MDF
90 x 60 x 30
Collection of the artist

8 Pans
1987
Household gloss on cooking pans
71.1 x 236.2
Collection of the artist

Boxes
1988
Household gloss on cardboard boxes
Dimensions variable
Collection of the artist

Sinner
1988
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium, anatomical model, scalpels and pharmaceutical packaging
137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Private collection, courtesy White Cube

Edge
4.5 inch spot
1988
Household gloss on wall
217.2 x 325.8
Private collection

Row
4.5 inch spot
1988
Household gloss on wall
211.5 x 331.5
Private collection

E.M.I.
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, beech, wooden dowels, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging
137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung München, Udo und Anette Brandhorst Stiftung

Submission
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, beech, wooden dowels, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging
137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Collection Bischofberger, Switzerland

Pretty Vacant
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, fractional and promised gift to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

No Feelings
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Collection of Mr and Mrs Norman Braman, Miami

god
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Private collection

Holidays
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Private collection

New York
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, beech, pine, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging
137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Private collection, courtesy White Cube

Seventeen
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Artmon Collection

Bodies
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium and pharmaceutical packaging 137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Robert Tibbles Collection

Anarchy
1989
Glass, faced particleboard, ramin, plastic, aluminium, Fergusson mouth gag and pharmaceutical packaging
137.2 x 101.6 x 22.9
Private collection

A Thousand Years
1990
Glass, steel, silicone rubber, painted MDF, insect-o-cutor, cow's head, blood, flies, maggots, metal dishes, cotton wool, sugar and water
207.5 x 400 x 215
Courtesy Murderme

With Dead Head
1991
Photograph print on paper on aluminium
57.2 x 76.2
Edition of 15
Tate, ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding (Left)
1991
Glass, painted MDF, ramin, steel, acrylic, fish and formaldehyde solution 182.9 x 274.3 x 30.5
Prada collection, Milan

The Acquired Inability to Escape
1991
Glass, steel, silicone rubber, Formica, MDF, chair, ashtray, lighter and cigarettes 213.4 x 304.8 x 213.4
Tate

Stimulants (and the Way They Affect the Mind and Body)
1991
Glass, silicone, acrylic, polystyrene, sheep's heads and formaldehyde solution
45.72 x 68.6 x 45.72
Private collection

In and Out of Love (Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays)
1991
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas, painted MDF, steel, Formica, MDF, ashtrays, cigarette packets and cigarettes
Dimensions variable
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Acetic anhydride
3.5 inch spot
1991
Household gloss on canvas
168.9 x 200
Private collection

In and Out of Love (White Paintings and Live Butterflies)
1991
Primer on canvas with pupae, steel, potted flowers, live butterflies, Formica, MDF, bowls, sugar-water solution, fruit, radiators, heaters, cool misters, air vents, lights, thermometers and humidistats
Dimensions variable
Private Collection, courtesy White Cube

Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purpose of Understanding (Right)
1991
Glass, painted MDF, ramin, steel, acrylic, fish and formaldehyde solution
182.9 x 274.3 x 30.5
Private collection

The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
1991
Glass, painted steel, silicone, monofilament, shark and formaldehyde solution
217 x 542 x 180
Private collection

Pharmacy
1992
Glass, faced particleboard, painted MDF, beech, ramin, wooden dowels, aluminium, pharmaceutical packaging, desks, office chairs, foot stools, apothecary bottles, coloured water, insect-o-cutor, medical text books, stationary, bowls, resin, honey and honey
Dimensions variable
Tate

Dead Ends Died Out, Examined
1993
Glass, painted MDF, ramin, steel, cigarettes and ash
152.4 x 243.8 x 10.2
Francois Pinault Foundation

11 Sausages
1993
Acrylic, silicone, monofilament, stainless steel, sausages and formaldehyde solution
62.6 x 47.5 x 7.4
Collection of the artist

Aprotinin
1 inch spot
1994
Household gloss on canvas
33 x 25.4
Private collection

What Goes Up Must Come Down
1994
Plexiglass, hairdryer and ping-pong ball
30 x 30
10 in an edition of 30/ XV for Parkett 40
Collection of the artist

Still
1994
Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, medical, surgical and laboratory equipment
195.6 x 251.5 x 50.8
Stefan T. Edlis Collection

Arg-Glu
1 inch spot
1994
Household gloss on canvas
58.4 x 53.3
Mayfair Oeuvres d'Art Ltd

Anthraquinone-1-Diazonium Chloride
1994
Household gloss paint on canvas
205.7 x 251.5
Lent by Collection Shane Akeroyd, London 2009

Doubt
1994
Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, medical and surgical equipment
180 x 90 x 36
Private collection

Away from the Flock
1994
Glass, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, plastic, lamb and formaldehyde solution
96 x 149 x 51
3 in an edition of 3 with 1artists proof
Tate, ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation
with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Beautiful, childish, expressive, tasteless, not art, over simplistic, throw away, kid's stuff, lacking in integrity, rotating, nothing but visual candy, celebrating, sensational, inarguably, beautiful painting (for over the sofa)
1996
Household gloss on canvas and electric motor
365.8 diameter
Courtesy Murderme

Crematorium
1996
Fibreglass, cigarettes, cigarette packaging, tobacco packaging, cigarette papers, matches, tissues, sweet wrappings, swizzle sticks, drug paraphernalia and ash
58.4 x 243.8
Collection of Larry Gagosian

Calciferol
3 inch spot
1996
Household gloss on canvas
38.1 x 38.1
Private collection

Loving in a World of Desire
1996
Painted MDF, steel, air blower and beach ball
74.5 x 249.5 x 249.5
Prada collection, Milan

N-Chloroacetyl-l-phenylalanine (PFS) Crystalline
3 inch spot
1997
Household gloss on canvas
914 x 114.3
Frank and Lorna Dunphy

Beautiful, amore, gasp, eyes going into the top of the head and fluttering painting
1997
Household gloss on canvas
213.4 diameter
Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway

Iodomethane- 13c
1 inch spot
1999-2001
Household gloss on canvas
302.3 x 1216.7
Private collection

Hymn
1999-2005
Painted bronze
595.3 x 334 x 205.7
Hors de Commerce for an edition of 3 with 1 artists proof
Courtesy Murderme

Trinity – Pharmacology, Physiology, Pathology
2000
Glass, faced particleboard, wood, steel, and anatomical models
213.5 x 153 x 47.2
274.5 x 183.5 x 47.2
213.5 x 153 x 47.2
Tate, ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Lullaby, the Seasons
2002
Glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel, bismuth and cast resin, coloured plaster and painted pills with dry transfers
183.3 x 275.5 x 10
Private collection, courtesy White Cube

Caproaldehyde
3 inch spot
2003
Household gloss on canvas
38.1 x 53.3
Private collection

Beautiful, cataclysmic pink minty shifting horizon exploding star with ghostly presence, wide, broad, painting
2004
Household gloss on canvas and electric motor
365.8 diameter
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

Black Sun
2004
Flies and resin on canvas
365.8 diameter
Private collection, courtesy White Cube

Ventolin
2 inch spot
2005
Household gloss on canvas
66 x 76.2
Frederick B. Henry

Furegrelate
36 inch spot
2006
Household gloss on canvas
274.3 x 274.3
Private collection

Lapdancer
2006
Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, medical and surgical equipment
103.3 x 241.1 x 92.1
Collection of Peter Marino

Sympathy in White Major &ndash Absolution II
2006
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
213.4 diameter
Private collection

The Incomplete Truth
2006
Glass, painted aluminium, silicone, acrylic, stainless steel, dove and formaldehyde
solution
222 x 176 x 74
1 in an edition of 3 with 1 artists proof and 1 Hors de Commerce
Courtesy of PinchukArtCentre, Kiev

I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds
2006
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
213.4 x 533.4
Private collection

For the Love of God
2007
Platinum, diamonds and human teeth
17.1 x 12.7 x 19.1
Private Collection

Ergocalciferol
1 inch spot
2007
Household gloss on canvas
99.1 x 129.5
Kemal Has Cingillioglu

Black Sheep
2007
Glass, painted stainless steel, silicone, acrylic, plastic, sheep and formaldehyde solution
109.1 x 162.3 x 64.1
1 in an edition of 3 with 1 artists proof and 1 Hors de Commerce
Bill Bell Collection

Doorways to the Kingdom of Heaven
2007
Butterflies and household gloss on canvas
280.3 x 183
294.3 x 244
280.3 x 183
Courtesy of PinchukArtCentre, Kiev

Sulfisoxazole
3 inch spot
2007
Household gloss on canvas
129.5 x 144.8
Mugrabi Collection

Cupric Nitrate
1 inch spot
2007
Household gloss on canvas
205.7 x 210.8
Private collection

The Anatomy of an Angel
2008
Carrara marble
187 x 98 x 78.5
3 in an edition of 3 with 1 artists proof; indoor version
Private collection

The Abyss
2008
Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, aluminium, cigarettes, cigars, lipstick and ash
236.1 x 470.2 x 10
Fondation Louis Vuitton Pour La Creation

Fragments of Paradise
2008
Glass, stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel and cubic zirconia
183.3 x 275.5 x 10
Private collection

Remembrance
3 inch spot
2008
Household gloss on canvas with gold leaf
251.5 x 221
The Hanson Collection, New York

Tears of Joy Wallpaper
2011
Four colour Gravure printing process
Unlimited edition
1000 x 52.5
Collection of the artist

Midas and the Infinite
2008
Butterflies, cubic zirconia and enamel paint on canvas
301.8 x 301.8
Mr Hezi Bezalel

The Kingdom
2008
Glass, painted stainless steel, silicone, monofilament, shark and formaldehyde solution
214 x 383.6 x 141.8
Private collection

Invasion
2009
Glass, stainless steel, steel, nickel, brass, rubber, medical and surgical equipment 195.6 x 375.9 x 50.8
Private collection

Judgement Day
2009
Glass, gold plated stainless steel, steel, aluminium, nickel and cubic zirconia
240.3 x 874.3 x 10.2
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

Mother and Child Divided
exhibition copy 2007 (original 1993)
Glass, painted stainless steel, silicone, acrylic, monofilament, stainless steel, cow, calf and formaldehyde solution
113.6 x 168.9 x 62.2
113.6 x 168.9 x 62.2
208.6 x 322.5 x 109.2
208.6 x 322.5 x 109.2
Tate

Tetrachloroauric Acid, 2008
3 inch spot
Household gloss and metallic paint on canvas
175.3 x 271.8
Tatintsian Collection

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