Damien Hirst - Beautiful Hours Spin Painting (2009)

Beautiful Hours Spin Painting (2009)

Artist: Damien Hirst 
Medium: Offset lithograph printed in colours  with Wove paper — full sheet printed to the edges                                                                                                                                    Edition : Unknown edition size
Dimensions: 84 x 60 cm
Signature : Signed in black felt-tip pen                                                                        Publisher : Other Criteria, London

Description:

Beautiful Hours Spin Painting (2009) is a large-format offset lithograph from one of Damien Hirst's most viscerally compelling bodies of work — the spin paintings, initiated in the early 1990s and continued across multiple series, in which paint is applied to a rotating canvas and flung outward by centrifugal force into explosive radial compositions. Here, the spin painting format is fused with Hirst's other defining motif — the skull — the skeletal form emerging from and dissolving back into a storm of magenta, yellow, teal, red, orange, and cobalt: time literally written on the face of death, clock faces visible within the maelstrom of colour.

The composition achieves something genuinely rare: a work about mortality that is also about joy, about colour, about the sheer exuberance of paint in motion. The skull — Hirst's most persistent memento mori, from the spot paintings to For the Love of God — is here not contemplated but overwhelmed, saturated, almost celebrated out of existence by the chromatic energy surrounding it. The clock faces embedded in the composition — the "Beautiful Hours" of the title — introduce time as the third term: between life, death, and the spinning present moment, paint moves outward at speed and leaves this behind.

Published by Other Criteria, London — the publishing house founded by Hirst himself and responsible for his most significant print editions — and printed in colours as an offset lithograph on wove paper, with the full sheet printed to the edges, creating a composition with no margin and no separation between image and object. Signed by the artist in black felt-tip pen. 

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FAQ 

Is this an original Damien Hirst print? Yes — an original offset lithograph in colours, signed by the artist in black felt-tip pen and published by Other Criteria, London.

What is Other Criteria? Other Criteria is the publishing house founded by Damien Hirst, responsible for his most significant print and edition publications. Works bearing the Other Criteria imprint carry the full authority of the artist's own publishing programme.

What is the edition size? The edition size for this work is not publicly documented — a characteristic of certain Other Criteria publications.

What are the Spin Paintings? The Spin Paintings are one of Hirst's most celebrated series — works in which paint is applied to a rotating canvas and flung outward by centrifugal force, creating explosive radial compositions. They have been produced across multiple series since the early 1990s.

Do you ship internationally? Yes — worldwide, with museum-grade packaging for framed works, full insurance, and shipment tracking.