Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall and oilcans—acquire multiple levels of

and oilcans—acquire multiple levels of reference and association

Compiled in close collaboration with the artist and unprecedented in its scope

alongside extensive photography of the installation process and exhibition

and an illustrated chronology of Richardson’s curatorial career at Gagosian from 2009 to 2018

ephemeral sketches

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall and oilcans—acquire multiple levels ofThis 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