Damien Hirst will become just the second living artist to have a solo show at The Wallace Collection(after Lucian Freud), when in October he presents a collection of 25 new paintings entitled “The Blue Paintings”, with obvious inspiration. Probably most interesting is that the paintings have been painted by hand by Hirst himself, no mass of assistants, merely artist and canvas in its traditional way. It’s not cheap to view the exhibition though, Prices for receptions with a private view of the Hirst exhibition start at £8,000. Prices for dinners for up to 60 guests start at £9,000 + VAT, or for dinners for up to 160 guests the cost is £11,500.
