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TRIPLE TROUBLE. 2025.

paul robertson — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:58:05 +0000

Lon don: Newport Street Gallery, 2025 37 x 29.2cm, 20pp (self cover). Tabloid newspaper. The exhibition catalogue for the tripartite show by Hirst, Obey and Invader where works were jointly made. Perhaps more of a money making excersie than anything else it surprisingly was successful with some combinations of styles really working. Colour and b/w images of all of the works throughout, texts including interviews in English. VG+.

VISUAL CANDY AND NATURAL HISTORY. 2018.

paul robertson — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:46:38 +0000

Hong Kong: Gagosian, 2018 28 x 23cm, 188pp plus pictorial boards. Exhibition catalogue for a show displaying recent more abstract paintings by Hirst and some of his earlier "natural history" installations and sculptures using dead animals. Texts in English and Chinese. 37 works in colour and at the back a small catalogue listing of each work. VG+.

ROMANCE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY (SKULL). 2003. SIGNED.

paul robertson — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:39:56 +0000

London: White Cube, 2003 64 x 42cm, full colour artist designed poster. A limited edition of 333 such offset lithographs which Hirst has signed bottom right in black felt pen. The edition sold out almost immediately and is now much sought after. VG.

ROMANCE IN THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY (BLOOD). 2003. SIGNED.

paul robertson — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:41:46 +0000

DAMIEN HIRST: POISONS + REMEDIES. 2011.

paul robertson — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 20:03:17 +0000

London: Gagosian Gallery, 2011 Two volumes in printed soft plastic folder . The two volumes are 36 and 52pp with many colour illustrations of all the works in the exhibition. Poisons + Remedies publishes the artist's series of 76 large-scale oil paintings depicting a skull to represent poison, and pills to represent remedies. The book's plastic cover references = blood bags and saline drips. There is a book for the poisons in one side of the sleeve and the remedies on the other side. Texts are by Gary Shteyngart. JOINT AS PUBLISHED: A loosely inserted duratran is an x-ray of the artist's skull shown face on and in side profile. VG++.

UK IN VENICE. 2017. PHYLLIDIA BARLOW. RACHEL MACLEAN. JAMES RICHARDS.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:11:14 +0000

Venice: British Council, 2017 30.5 x 21.5cm, printed outer folder content of three, 30 x 21cm, 4pp colour injet sheets - one each for Phyllidia Barlow, Rachel Maclean and James Richards who represented England, Scotland and Wales respectively at the Biennale. Texts in English and a colour image relating to each. Press release as well as documentation. JOINT: GUIDE TO UK EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Venice: British Council, 2017 15 x 10.5cm, 24pp (self cover) listing all of the British events and shows which include Damien Hirst's Treasures from the Wreak of the Unbelievable with one colour image) and Douglas Gordon. VG+.

JAMIE KANTROWITZ ADAM LINDEMANN MATTHEW HRANEK. 2007. AUCTION CATALOGUE.

paul robertson — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:21:27 +0000

NYC: Phillips De Pury, 2007 32.5 x 26cm, unpaginated (c. 160pp) plus card covers and plastic transparent outer folder. Auction catalogue for a wide range of different items including sculptures, furniture, fabrics and clothing, watches, collectable toys and paintings. Colour images and descriptions throughout. De Pury was one of the first auction houses to include collectable toys in its auctions and they are offered here alongside works by Basquiat, Kostabi, Saul, Ruscha, Richter, Warhol, Prince. Emin, Pierson, Indiana, Kippenberger, Beuys, Hockney, Indiana and others. VG.

SUZYT HOODLESS BEN ELLIOT TONY CHAMBERS. 2008. AUCTION CATALOGUE.

paul robertson — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:14:47 +0000

London: Phillips De Pury, 2008 32.5 x 26cm, unpaginated (c. 160pp) plus card covers and plastic transparent outer folder. Auction catalogue for a wide range of different items including sculptures, furniture, fabrics and clothing, watches, collectable toys and paintings. Colour images and descriptions throughout. De Pury was one of the first auction houses to include collectable toys in its auctions and they are offered here alongside works by Araki, Banksy, Faile, Beuys, Bacon, Dzama, Delvoye, Kelly, Christo, Kaws, Murakami, Takano, Ruff, Hirst, Koons, Gilbert & George, Matta-CLark, Calle and others. VG.

SIMON HAMMERSTEIN IRINA LAZAREANU MAXWELL GILLINGHAM-RYAN. 2008. AUCTION CATALOGUE.

paul robertson — Tue, 30 May 2023 17:54:56 +0000

NYC: Phillips De Pury, 2008 32.5 x 26cm, unpaginated (c. 160pp) plus card covers and plastic transparent outer folder. Auction catalogue for a wide range of different items including sculptures, furniture, fabrics and clothing, watches, collectable toys and paintings. Colour images and descriptions throughout. De Pury was one of the first auction houses to include collectable toys in its auctions and they are offered here alongside works by Araki, Kaws, Murakami, Ruff, Hirst, Koons, Mechabot, Prince, Katz, Gober and others. VG.

STRANGE DEVELOPMENTS CURATED BY JEFFREY DEITCH. 1992. EARLY YBA RELATED SHOW.

paul robertson — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 14:06:29 +0000

London: Anthony d'Offay, 1992 20.5 x 15.5cm, 4pp announcement card for a group show including Janine Antoni, Rachel Evans, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, SImon Linke, Paul McCarthy, Marc Quinn, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman and Kiki Smith as curated by Jeffrey Deitch. This was an early show that included Hirst, Evans and Quinn all of whom had only recently become known thanks to the emergence of the YBAs. One detail of a Hirst work on front and internally (Dead Head from 1991). The card also notes a performance by Antoni - "Loving Care". VG+.

ANIMAL. 1997. EARLY HIRST GROUP SHOW.

paul robertson — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:56:05 +0000

Glasgow: Centre for Contemporary Arts, 1997 14.7 x 14.7cm, 2pp announcement card for a group show that included early works by Hirst, Gordon, Hunter and others. One work in colour on the front, verso museum details. VG+.

HEARTS & RAINBOWS. 2020. THE WORST EVER HIRST EDITION BAR NONE.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 16:54:49 +0000

London: Heni Productions, 2020 11.5 x 17 x 0.75cm printed plastic folder content of 12 different, 16.5cm x 11.5cm postcards each showing a projection of either a rainbow or a heart onto a major building or landmark. One of 1,689 such sets issued as a fundraiser for the NHS during the Covid Pandemic. Let's be honest - this is the nadir of Hirst's increasingly banal artworks. A pandering to poor taste and knee-jerk sentimentality. The British National Health Service is a proud and astonishing institution and it does not deserve this tosh - the NHS deserves proper funding by a government who would sell it out in an instant if it could to private industry. All VG+ in like envelope - please buy this so I do not have to own it anymore - priced thus to reflect taste (it is 199 uk pounds elsewhere).