Damien Hirst Beans and Chips For Sale

Damien Hirst’s Beans and Chips is a striking work from his 1999 The Last Supper series—a portfolio of thirteen screenprints that explores the intersection of British identity, pharmaceutical aesthetics, and consumer culture. Rendered in clean, clinical typography and stark flat colour, Beans and Chips juxtaposes a classic British working-class meal with the visual language of prescription drug packaging, raising powerful questions about nourishment, healing, and modern life.

In Beans and Chips, Hirst presents the title phrase in bold Helvetica against a pure background, mimicking the design of commercial medicine boxes. What at first glance appears as minimalist graphic design quickly reveals itself as deeply satirical. The substitution of food names for drug names suggests that fast food has become a form of self-medication - a cultural antidote to boredom, anxiety, and routine. At the same time, it speaks to Hirst’s enduring fascination with mortality, ritual, and the ways we preserve ourselves physically and psychologically in contemporary society. As part of The Last Supper series, Beans and Chips forms part of a conceptual reinterpretation of the final meal, reimagined through the lens of 20th-century consumption. The series strips away religious symbolism and replaces it with the mass-manufactured rituals of everyday life. Food and medicine - both fundamental to survival - are reduced to logos and labels. In doing so, Hirst continues the Pop Art tradition of artists like Warhol and Richard Hamilton, while inserting a distinctly British, post-YBA irreverence.

From a collectability standpoint, Beans and Chips is among the most sought-after pieces in the editioned series. Its visual clarity and conceptual strength make it highly desirable among both seasoned collectors and new entrants to the Hirst market. The print’s enduring relevance—especially in an age of heightened scrutiny around consumer culture, health, and mass branding—adds to its cultural and market appeal.

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