The Virtues Loyalty
Condition reports and provenance available upon request
About This Work
Damien Hirst’s *The Virtues: Loyalty* distils a timeless moral ideal into a luminous, contemporary image. Executed in Hirst’s celebrated spot-painting language, the work orchestrates precisely spaced circles into a poised chromatic field, where hue and interval function like visual notes—measured, rhythmic, and quietly emphatic. The immaculate surface and near-industrial facture heighten a tension between emotion and system: “loyalty” is proposed not as sentimentality, but as enduring structure. As part of *The Virtues* series, the work extends Hirst’s long-standing inquiry into belief, value, and ritual in a secular age, translating ethical concepts into a compelling optical experience. Its immediate visual clarity gives way to sustained contemplation, rewarding prolonged looking with subtle shifts in balance, temperature, and harmony.
About the Artist
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. He was awarded the Turner Prize in 1995. Since the late 1980’s, Hirst has used a varied practise of...
View Full Artist Profile →Zebra One Gallery
Contemporary Art • Hampstead, London
Established 1976 • 50 years of excellence in contemporary art • Professional authentication and provenance research