Artist Damien Hirst work stuns art lovers

GOING, GOING, GONE: Damien Hirst is a celebrated artist and Sotheby's house coveted art pieces

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New Delhi: Global superstar artist Damien Hirst, whose fanclub include the likes of Bono from U2 and Bill Gates, is now ready to market to India. Those in India now actually stand a chance to buy his work through Sotheby's.

Critics believe that though the works on display in New Delhi are small canvas works, which is a little disappointing but they are still Damien Hirst, nevertheless.

Artist Damien Hirst is known wilder things like animal carcasses preserved in formaldihyde and obnoxiously expensive works like a $100 million US diamond studded skull.

Hirst is the ultimate enfant terrible in international contemporary art. He is also the best known name, the best known brat and the most expensive artist today. He is also known to exhibit a shrewd business mind.

At the Sotheby's in New Delhi, one can preview the never seen before, fresh works done by Damien Hirst for a special auction in London in September this year. The collection is titled 'Beautiful Inside My Head Forever'.

These butterflies, not endangered, preserved and coated with gloss on a canvas of just 18 by 18 inches has an estimate of Rs 1.45 crore. In pieces of Hirst art, where there are just a few of these beautiful dead creatures stuck on a diameter of 91 cms with enamel paint, the value drops to Rs 1.21 crore.

A lot of works also include broken glass and blades and the spin paintings. This may not be eaxctly suited to or preferred by the Indian buyer and it is a little difficult to predict if the art work will be grabbed with a frenzy.

Senior Director, Contemporary Art at Sotheby's, Oliver Barker said, "Gold cabinets with diamonds would have more takers, decorative silver butterfly, his work universal themes of beauty, life and death...the Indian tastes benefit by this exhibition."

From Delhi, the show moves to London. The London exhibition will be from September 5thto 15th and then the stuff goes under the auctioneer's hammer at Sotheby's in London.