The gunmetal/green skull entitled 'Till Death Do Us Part' created in 2012 by master contemporary artist, Damien Hirst. The series is created in a small edition of only 50 pieces, each signed and numbered by the Artist. The printing technique of using silkscreen, foil block and glaze creates a unique texture and visual appeal. The skull is a dark gunmetal silver tone with a bright green foil underlay that reflects a spectrum of color. The artwork is framed in a custom black lacquer with black matte.


Damien Hirst regularly uses quotations from religious ceremonies and texts to entitle his works. “Till Death Do Us Part,” is a phrase traditionally used to bind the living in matrimony, however, it is used here to play on the beauty of connection, even in death. Hirst’s infamous eschatology focuses on the morbid aspects of the marital vow as the skull represents the inevitable decay of life.

"You don’t like it (death), so you disguise it or you decorate it to make it look like something bearable – to such an extent that it becomes something else.”

Hirst uses art to change something into something else and thus subvert emotions. His skulls have the capacity to win over death, at least over the temporal, physical and ugly aspect of it: rotting decay.