Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Putri Tan Over the last three decades

Over the last three decades

among the many shots Avedon took of the famous actor that day

and conceptual links between his work and those of a long and diverse list of painters and sculptors that includes Richard Artschwager

an exhibition of new tennis court paintings by the artist

An introduction by novelist and short story writer Ann Beattie and a prologue by Mann are followed by reproductions of the artist’s richly tonal large-format black-and-white photographs

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Putri Tan Over the last three decadesThis book was published on the occasion of Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 19862011, a single exhibition held simultaneously at eleven Gagosian gallery locations worldwide that brought together more than three hundred of Hirsts Spot paintings. Beginning with the first Spot painting created in 1986, Hirst established the essential characteristics of what was to become his well known series: hand painted colored circles arranged in a grid