£300 - £400
Damien Hirst (b.1965) Pharmacy 1997 (silver), Full panel repeat pattern cut from the now destroyed wallpaper from Damien Hirst's 1990's conceptual restaurant "Pharmacy", lithograph, 45 x 53cm, framed.
In 1997, for his restaurant called 'The Pharmacy' located at Notting Hill Gate, London, Hirst designed wallpaper (the "wall chart") based on the pharmaceutical giant Merck’s handbook endpapers, showing pills and products and describing them with their pharmaceutical titles. Merck objected and he withdrew it as an artwork of wallpaper, after he had already plastered the restaurant with silver and gold sheets of the material. Initial plans to open further restaurants outside London were quietly dropped and the restaurant itself closed in September, 2003. Sotheby's dispersed its contents in 2004.
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