Damien Hirst
I am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds, 2006
Butterflies and household gloss paint on canvas in artist’s frame
84 x 210in. (213.4 x 533.4cm.)
Thanks to Christie’s for wrapping their Post War & Contemporary catalog in this, because that means I just acquired it for the dollhouse. I’m going to wallpaper a room in the painted lady hippie house with it.
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‘If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One…I am become Death, the shatterer of worlds’ (Bhagavad Gita, quoted in R. Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists, trans. J. Cleugh, New York, 1958, p. 201).
