This print is signed on the front in the lower right, numbered in the lower left from the edition of 25.

Damien Steven Hirst (born 7 June 1965) is an English artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists (YBAs), who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom’s richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215M in the 2010 Sunday TimesRich List. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Death is a central theme in Hirst’s works. He became famous for a series of artworks in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved ”sometimes having been dissected”in formaldehyde. The best known of these was The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a clear display case. He has also made “spin paintings,” created on a spinning circular surface, and “spot paintings”, which are rows of randomly coloured circles created by his assistants.

In September 2008, Hirst made an unprecedented move for a living artist by selling a complete show, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s by auction and bypassing his long-standing galleries. The auction raised £111 million ($198 million), breaking the record for a one-artist auction as well as Hirst’s own record with £10.3 million for The Golden Calf, an animal with 18-carat gold horns and hooves, preserved in formaldehyde.

£500

Kitching's 'series of experiments in typography and printing'... 'will attempt to assess and re-state the standards postulated in the traditions of the craft and the technology of printing and thus the implications they may hold for tomorrow.' This reaction to the 'corruptions and caprices of much work of today', at the time of the accelerated burgeoning of computerised graphic design, informed his decision after a decade as a respected graphic designer, to set up his Typography Workshop and go back to print. Starting with typographic samples of stationery all on one sheet, the Broadsides progressed through specimens of typefaces held at the workshop, to a celebration of the typefaces Albertus and Pegasus, designed by Berthold Wolpe, and then one of his first typographic maps, of Clerkenwell, showing the location of the Workshop. The Broadsides increased in complexity and colour and were used in his teaching both at the Typography Workshop and at the Royal College of Art, with input of students and assistants credited. One of the crucial lessons he imparted, that he himself had learned from Anthony Froshaug, was the importance of the meaning of the text to be designed.

This world famous three-piece series depicts Lichtenstein's famous painting 'As I Opened Fire' from 1964 for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and featured in their current collection. This is one of the few signed set from the early 1960's edition printed by Drukkerij Luii & Co., and published by the Stedelijk Museum.