DESCRIPTION

Eternal Belief by Damien Hirst. A limited-edition crystal cross inlaid with pills, exploring faith, medicine, and mortality. Limited edition of 20.

Cast in luminous, transparent crystal using the ancient lost-wax technique, Eternal Belief (Crystal Clear) is a striking limited-edition sculpture that synthesizes Damien Hirst’s defining themes of faith, medicine, and human mortality. Formed as a large Christian cross inlaid with vibrant, meticulously arranged pharmaceutical pills, the piece brings Hirst’s iconic visual vocabulary into an intimate, light-capturing form.

By juxtaposing sacred imagery with modern pharmaceuticals, Hirst explores the parallel rituals of spiritual salvation and modern medicine, inviting quiet reflection on humanity’s search for transcendence, healing, and renewal. The sculpture’s radiant clarity creates a compelling tension between the permanence of belief and the fleeting nature of life.

Issued in an exclusive limited edition of 20, Eternal Belief (Crystal Clear) offers collectors a rare opportunity to acquire a materially rich, highly finished edition that embodies the conceptual depth and ambition of Hirst’s monumental museum-scale installations—scaled perfectly for personal spaces and private collections.

Damien Hirst was born in 1965 in Bristol and grew up in Leeds. In 1984 he moved to London, where he worked in construction before studying for a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths college from 1986 to 1989. Whilst in his second year, he conceived and curated a group exhibition entitled ‘Freeze’. The show is commonly acknowledged to have been the launching point for Hirst and for a generation of British artists. Since the late 1980s, Hirst has used varied practices to explore the complex relationships between art, life and death, explaining: “Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else.” Through work, he investigates and challenges contemporary belief systems, and dissects the uncertainties at the heart of human experience. Since 1987, over 90 solo Damien Hirst exhibitions have taken place worldwide, and his work has been included in over 260 group shows. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995.

Lalique today is considered the jewel in the crown of the French glass and crystal industry since 1888 – a byword for excellence, a reputation earned through creating extraordinary pieces in crystal glass in its myriad variations. It is not for nothing that Lalique is also referred to as the ‘haute couture’ of crystal. Since 1922, every Lalique piece has been produced at their only factory, the Verrerie d'Alsace glassworks at Wingen-sur Moder, Alsace, in a French region with a strong historical glassmaking tradition.

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DETAILS 

Brand: Lalique 

Material: Clear crystal / lost wax

Weight: 39,9 kg

Dimensions (avec support / on stand): 1060 x 560 x 250 mm

Limited edition of 20 pieces, piece delivered with a certificate of authenticity mentioning its number.