Hirst

/ hɜːst /

noun

1. Damien. born 1965, British artist, noted esp for his works featuring dead animals preserved in tanks of formaldehyde, and for his 2007 sculpture, For the Love of God , a human skull encrusted with flawless diamonds

Example Sentences

Barker was looking out the window of a London bus in 2003 when he noticed that Pharmacy, a restaurant hot spot opened by British artist Damien Hirst and public-relations executive Matthew Freud, had closed.

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The following year, Barker staged the auction of everything inside the chemist-themed restaurant—butterfly paintings, glass vial salt and pepper shakers, and aspirin-shaped bar stools—all made by Hirst.

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Barker later suggested the idea of a direct-to-auction sale of new works by Hirst, bypassing the artist’s dealers.

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The 2008 auction included more than 200 works by Hirst, from animals in formaldehyde tanks to polka-dot-covered canvases.

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He sometimes wears a special pair of Berluti dress shoes—“a lucky charm”— that Meyer insisted on buying for Barker before a Hirst sale.

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