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Damien Hirst’s “Mother and Child” via Guardian, Photograph by David Sillitoe

Damien Hirst has donated 4 major artworks worth £15m from his personal collection to The Tate Museums as part of the Tate’s Building the Tate’s Collection campaign. It is the first time Hirst has donated work to a museum. The works are:

Mother and Child, Divided – 1993 (Won Turner Prize in 1995)
The Acquired Inability to Escape – 1991
Who is Afraid of the Dark – 2002
Life Without You – 1991

Damien Hirst “The Acquired Inability to Escape” via Exibart
Glass, steel, silicone, MDF table, chair, ashtray, lighter and cigarettes
84″ x 120″ x 84″

Hirst Posing in front of Exhibition Copy of “Mother and Child” via AP

Links:
Damien Hirst Donates 4 Works to Tate Museums [IHT]
Hirst to Donate £15m Worth of His Art to Tate [FT]
Hirst Donates Pickled Cow to Tate [Reuters]
Have Half a Cow, Hirst Tells Tate [Telegraph]
A Christmas Gift from Damien Hirst to The Tate [Independent]
Hirst’s Gifts to The Tate [Guardian]
Damien Hirst [Wikipedia]

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