{"id":23261,"date":"2016-02-22T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/blog\/?p=23261"},"modified":"2023-12-28T06:55:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T11:55:54","slug":"damien-hirsts-only-portrait-of-the-queen-found-in-government-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2016\/02\/damien-hirsts-only-portrait-of-the-queen-found-in-government-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Hirst&#8217;s only portrait of the Queen found in government archives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">British artist Damien Hirst began his exploration of \u201cspin paintings\u201d in 1992.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Along with fellow artist Angus Fairhurst, the two contemporaries set up a booth at Joshua Compston\u2019s artist led street fair and invited visitors to create their own \u201cspin painting\u201d for a single pound, to then be signed by the duo\u2026 (maybe this is where he came up with the idea of a warehouse full of artist painting and creating his works of art to be signed after completion?)\u2026.anyway, in recent news\u2026.. A never before seen Hirst spin painting of the Queen, in hues of red and blue, was found in the British Governments stash of art. Done in 2014, it is believed to be his first spin painting of Her Royal Highness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/queen-elizabeth-II\/12155026\/Revealed-Damien-Hirsts-only-portrait-of-the-Queen-found-in-government-archives.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/hirst1_3573824b.jpg\" alt=\"hirst1_3573824b\" width=\"360\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British artist Damien Hirst began his exploration of \u201cspin paintings\u201d in 1992.\u00a0 Along with fellow artist Angus Fairhurst, the two contemporaries set up a booth at Joshua Compston\u2019s artist led street fair and invited visitors to create their own \u201cspin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2016\/02\/damien-hirsts-only-portrait-of-the-queen-found-in-government-archives\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-23261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-rehs-contemporary-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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