
Happy
"Happy" by Damien Hirst is a visually arresting work that embeds syringes, pills, and delicate butterflies beneath a glossy resin surface on canvas, creating a jarring tension between beauty and mortality. The juxtaposition of pharmaceutical objects with the fragile, ornamental butterflies is characteristic of Hirst's ongoing exploration of life, death, and the human relationship with medicine and consumption. Household gloss paint adds a slick, almost clinical finish that reinforces the work's unsettling yet seductive aesthetic.
- Medium
- Syringes, butterflies, pills, resin and household gloss paint on canvas, the full sheet,
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Evening & Day Editions
December 12, 2013
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