Damien Hirst Cornish Pasty For Sale

Damien Hirst’s Cornish Pasty (1999) is a subtly subversive work from his acclaimed The Last Supper portfolio, an edition of thirteen screenprints that cleverly fuse British food staples with the visual language of the pharmaceutical industry. By isolating the words “Cornish Pasty” in stark Helvetica type against a minimal background, Hirst invites us to reconsider the ways we package, digest, and commodify culture.

The Cornish pasty, a beloved symbol of regional British cuisine, becomes in Hirst’s hands a stand-in for medication, a cure for hunger perhaps, or more symbolically, a treatment for the rituals and routines of modern life. Its presentation mimics the packaging of a prescription drug: clinical, precise, and completely devoid of the warmth or nostalgia typically associated with comfort food.

This signed screenprint is part of a limited edition of 150, printed on Somerset paper and emblematic of Hirst’s ability to turn the familiar into the conceptual. Cornish Pasty embodies the artist’s long-standing interest in the blurred lines between nourishment and need, branding and belief.

The work is also a nod to Britain’s culinary and cultural identity, transformed into a sleek visual object that aligns with Hirst’s broader exploration of consumption, mortality, and commercialism. Like much of the Last Supper series, it draws from the Pop Art tradition while reframing it through a British, late-20th-century lens.

For collectors, Cornish Pasty offers both visual impact and intellectual depth. It’s an artwork that sits as comfortably in a contemporary collection as it does in the ongoing dialogue about art, value, and everyday life.

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