Hirst rating in freefall
Art Market | In the period running from January 2008 to January 2014, Damien Hirst’s works recorded a decline in value of 65%, with the amount of lots sold in auction down by 56% and the ratio of unsold lots totaling over 30% (figures Artprice).
Damien Hirst
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Sotheby’s sales results from 2014 corroborate these findings. Of 38 lots put up for auction, 10 were lowered in price, 16 were traded for less than the upper bound estimate, with only one sale in the millions recorded. With an entrepreneurial organization around his name/label, a production unit including a hundred-something assistants, his boutiques Other Criteria, and the heavily […]
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