About This Lot
Cocarboxylase is a 2010 woodcut by Damien Hirst from the series 12 Woodcut Spots. Published by The Paragon Press, the series is comprised of fourteen prints, each composed of between one and 48 variously colored dots. Each print is named after a different pharmaceutical; Cocarboxylase is an injectable form of Vitamin B.
First exhibited in 1988, the Spot works, also known as the Pharmaceutical Paintings have become one of the art world’s most recognizable, classic images and they define the way much of our culture views contemporary and conceptual art. Initially conceived as a scientific approach to painting much like the drug companies’ scientific approach to life. As the series evolved, Hirst began to discover an intriguing link between painting, and psychological mood.