22-05-2024 15:00 via theguardian.com

At least 1,000 Damien Hirst artworks were painted years later than claimed

Exclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources sayAt least 1,000 paintings that the artist Damien Hirst said were “made in 2016” were created several years later, the Guardian can reveal.Hirst produced 10,000 of the paintings, each comprising colourful hand-painted dots on A4 paper, as part of a project called The Currency that was born from the idea of creating a form of money from art. Continue rea
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