Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall Compiled in close collaboration with

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

Giacometti and Klein

By arranging forms according to mathematical sequences

Eleven new texts by longtime Penone scholar and collaborator Daniela Lancioni investigate the organizing principles within the artist’s practice

Since the creation of the first lamp in 1984

Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings, 1986–2011 Loïc Le Gall Compiled in close collaboration withThis 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