Beautiful, Merely Sensible, Slightly Discursive Eloquent and Picturesque Painting

Year2023

Hand SignedSigned By the Artist, in Red, Recto 

Condition Excellent 

Not Framed 

Purchased fromPublisher 2023 

Provenance / HistoryEdition: Each painting was a unique work created by the algrathym. There were, however, 606 examples of this size and shape created.Note: The Beautiful Paintings, are a group of revolutionary new artworks from Damien Hirst which blurs the boundaries between digital and physical art creation using generative and machine learning algorithms. Marking the newest iteration of Hirst’s iconic ‘Spin Paintings’ series, known for their energetic splashes of colour, this work invites collectors to take part in the process of generating their own ‘Spin Paintings’ using a digital platform. Collectors had the option to generate the artwork either as a physical print, digital artwork (NFT), or both. The physical artworks are printed on canvas and are available in two shapes (square or circular) and four sizes. Each artwork in the series is unique, and the physical artworks will be hand-signed with a paint pen on the front by Damien Hirst. The Beautiful Paintings were available for purchase for a limited time only, from Thursday, 31 March to Monday, 10 April. Despite their name, The Beautiful Paintings are not actually paintings - they are Giclée prints printed on canvas. Each artwork in the series is unique, and the physical artworks are hand-signed by Damien Hirst in paint pen on the front of the work. 

Certificate of AuthenticityFairhead Fine Art 

LID169570

Damien Hirst - United Kingdom

Damien Steven Hirst (; born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended. Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. The best-known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case. He has also made "spin paintings", created on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings", which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants. In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby's by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst's own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde. Listings wanted.