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YOUNG BRITISH ARTISTS

YBAs = provocative. The collective of artists who came up in London in the late 1980s and early ’90s — commonly referred to as the Young British Artists (YBAs) — have made their indelible mark on the art world and continue to produce work that both challenges the viewer and seduces collectors the world over.

Damien Hirst played the role of pioneer in 1988 by organizing “Freeze,” the first of several artist-curated group shows held in abandoned warehouses across London. Most of the artists participating in these early exhibitions — among them Sarah Lucas, Gary Hume, Liam Gillick, Mat Collishaw, Sam Taylor-Wood (now generating more buzz for her directorial work on the film 50 Shades of Grey), and Hirst himself — were graduates of Goldsmiths, University of London. The group’s sophisticated maturity and confidence in presenting Conceptual art with shock appeal, such as Collishaw’s Bullet Hole, a photograph that offers a disturbingly gruesome close-up of a man’s fatal wound, left a lasting impression with Charles Saatchi and other art world stalwarts.

From the beginning, Hirst was fascinated by such epic themes as death and immortality and sought to express them through unconventional, powerful gestures; his early works include A Thousand Years, 1990, in which flies feed on a bloody cow head, breed and die by electrocution within a large glass vitrine, and The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991, his Jaws-inspired suspension of a great white shark in formaldehyde. Following in the footsteps of artists ranging from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, Hirst was inspired by mundane objects from daily life, incorporating them into his works, most famously his "Medicine Cabinets" filled with brightly packaged pills.

Notoriously dubbed an “enfant terrible” of the art world, Tracey Emin once printed a photo of Damien Hirst, stuck it on the bottom of an ashtray, and sold it as a piece of art. Represented by 1stDibs’ Lehmann Maupin Gallery since the late 1990s, Emin was a Turner Prize finalist in 1998 for My Bed, an installation showcasing her disheveled bed covered in underwear, used condoms and other debris. Overt sexuality and the emotional dynamics of love and sex have persisted as themes throughout her career, seen across the neon artworks for which she is most famous.

YBAs have never shied from using non-traditional materials or tackling controversial subject matter. Chris Ofili, a racially charged painter who re-appropriates biblical and mythological iconography, found the spotlight in 1999 when then-New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani publicly criticized the artist’s monumental depiction of an eroticized black Madonna, entitled The Holy Virgin Mary, baring a breast composed of elephant dung and surrounded by images of female genitalia. Marc Quinn reimagined the self-portrait in 1991 by casting a frozen sculpture of his head with his own blood and maintaining it in a refrigerated vitrine as if on life-support. More recently, Quinn has elicited strong reactions from a series of studies and sculptures of supermodel Kate Moss in a contorted, god-like pose.

Below, we invite you to browse our collection of original works by Hirst, Emin, Quinn, Collishaw and other YBAs — a group that knew not only how to provoke and self-promote but to create works that continue to resonate today.

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Style: Young British Artists (YBA)
Damien Hirst "Ciclopirox Olamine" Spots Print
Damien Hirst "Ciclopirox Olamine" Spots Print

Damien Hirst "Ciclopirox Olamine" Spots Print

By Damien Hirst

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Ciclopirox Olamine Date: 2004 Medium: Etching on 350 gsm Hahnemuhle paper. Unframed Dimensions: 45" x 44.25" Framed Dimensions: 47.25" x 48.5" Signa...

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Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

Female Figure in NYC, Contemporary Painting, Signed Original on Canvas from 2014
Female Figure in NYC, Contemporary Painting, Signed Original on Canvas from 2014

Female Figure in NYC, Contemporary Painting, Signed Original on Canvas from 2014

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Female Figure in New York City in Fall Sunshine on Sidewalk Street Corner by British Contemporary Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 18 x 24 inches Frame measure 23 x 2...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Gesso, Paint, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board

Damien Hirst "Psalm: Domine, Dominus noster"
Damien Hirst "Psalm: Domine, Dominus noster"

Damien Hirst "Psalm: Domine, Dominus noster"

By Damien Hirst

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Psalm: Domine, Dominus noster Series: Psalm Date: 2009 Medium: Silkscreen with glazes and diamond dust, on wove paper Unframed Dimensions: 29" x 28...

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Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Glaze, Screen, Mixed Media

Female Figure in New York City in Fall on Tree Lined Street with Taxi Rank
Female Figure in New York City in Fall on Tree Lined Street with Taxi Rank

Female Figure in New York City in Fall on Tree Lined Street with Taxi Rank

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Female Figure in New York City in Fall on Tree Lined Street with Taxi Rank by British Contemporary Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measure 29 x...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Gesso, Paint, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board

Chrysler Building Taxi Fifth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist
Chrysler Building Taxi Fifth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist

Chrysler Building Taxi Fifth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Chrysler Building Taxi Fifth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield. This is a major work from her New York Series. No.26. Art measures 18 x 24 inches ...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Canvas, Cotton, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Damien Hirst "Diamond Skull (For the Love of God)"
Damien Hirst "Diamond Skull (For the Love of God)"

Damien Hirst "Diamond Skull (For the Love of God)"

By Damien Hirst

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Diamond Skull (For the Love of God) Date: 2007 Medium: Screenprint with Glazes Unframed Dimensions: 39.25" x 29.5" Framed Dimensions: 40.5" x 30.5" ...

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Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Glaze, Screen

Paxos Madonna. Contemporary Oil Painting

Paxos Madonna. Contemporary Oil Painting

By Sax Berlin

Located in Brecon, Powys

Created in his studio on the Greek island of Paxos in 2004, this Madonna, painted in the ancient technique of egg tempera, is inspired by the Madonnas found throughout the islands. T...

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Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Egg Tempera

These Feelings Were True -Emin, Contemporary, YBAs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait
These Feelings Were True -Emin, Contemporary, YBAs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait

These Feelings Were True -Emin, Contemporary, YBAs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait

By Tracey Emin

Located in Zug, CH

These Feelings Were True - Tracey Emin, Contemporary, Young British Artiststs, Lithograph, Blue, Portrait, Limited Edition 2 colour lithographs on Somerset Velvet Warm White 400gsm (Poprtfolio of 8) Edition 25 of 50, the full Set is offered in matching edition numbers Signed, numbered, and dated by the artist In mint condition, as acquired from the publisher with the original cardboard portfolio Published by Counter Editions Please note: images are for illustrative purposes only, the edition number offered is 25 of 50 Tracey Emin's new set of 8 lithographs depicting herself are incredibly personal auto portraits and revelatory. Viewed almost as an intimate tiny sketchbook of herself, a visual diary. These editions are great examples of Emin's radical painting style which has been influenced by Expressionism. These works showcase universal feelings, raw and bittersweet emotions, which are Emin’s constant subject surrounded around the idea of love, loss, intimacy, and longing. In making herself the subject of her work, and concentrating intensely on figuration, Emin creates bridges with the rich art-historical tradition of the female figure and female nudes. She shows strong emotive force in these pictures, as seen for example in the work of male painters Munch and Schiele, which Emin admires and studied throughout her artistic oeuvre. Emin has said that “when I saw that these portraits did not look like me, I then realized I was actually drawing how I felt inside my head. An expression of myself in different moments, and this idea doing a few of them would be very honest and will be really free… the idea is how I am feeling.” When referencing her previous portraiture practice, Emin said “I would put my face in the work and then I would black it out, it is too much for me to have me in the work, and now it is so weird, I am thinking that it is time for me to start having an entrance to my work. Because I have a good reason to do it. I should be celebrating me as a person and things that make me, me.” TRACEY EMIN A prominent member of the Young British Artists (YBAs), Tracey Emin´s production encompasses different mediums including film, painting, neon, embroidery, drawing, writing, installation and sculpture. Her work is intensely personal, revealing intimate details of her life with honesty and humour. "There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences."—Tracey Emin Tracey Emin uses all aspects of her life in her art, turning her autobiography into broader statements about sex, love, death, freedom, and everyday life. This audacious and confessional approach earned her a nomination for the Turner Prize in 1999. The artist received notable acclaim, among others, for her installation My Bed, featuring her unmade bed surrounded...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Lithograph

H10-5 Taytu Betul
H10-5 Taytu Betul

H10-5 Taytu Betul

By Damien Hirst

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: H10-5 Taytu Betul Series: The Empresses Date: 2022 Medium: Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter Unframed Dimen...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Glitter, Giclée

Love Will Tear Us Apart
Love Will Tear Us Apart

Love Will Tear Us Apart

By Damien Hirst

Located in Miami, FL

TECHNICAL INFORMATION Damien Hirst Love Will Tear Us Apart Plexiglas and sintra cabinet with various sized surgical syringes and needles 14 x 20 x 8 3/4 in. Edition of 30 Signed, da...

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1990s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Mixed Media

Victorian Steam Locomotive Trials  Large British train railway
Victorian Steam Locomotive Trials  Large British train railway

Victorian Steam Locomotive Trials Large British train railway

Located in GB

A highly detailed and visually striking railway painting by renowned British transport artist John Edwin Wigston, depicting an early steam locomotive gathering attended by engineers,...

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20th Century Young British Artists (YBA)

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Canvas, Oil

Band on the Bridge - Part of London Collection by Contemporary British Artist
Band on the Bridge - Part of London Collection by Contemporary British Artist

Band on the Bridge - Part of London Collection by Contemporary British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Band on the Bridge - Part of London Collection by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measure 29 x 23 inches Angela Wakefield has twice...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Gesso, Paint, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board

From the Cradle to the Grave Book (limited edition hand signed monograph in box)
From the Cradle to the Grave Book (limited edition hand signed monograph in box)

From the Cradle to the Grave Book (limited edition hand signed monograph in box)

By Damien Hirst

Located in New York, NY

Damien Hirst From the Cradle to the Grave, 2005 Limited Edition hardback monograph (Hand signed and numbered) Hand signed and numbered 998/1500 by Damien Hirst on the title page 16 ×...

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Early 2000s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset

Blue Sky in New York City Sun by British Contemporary Urban Landscape Artist
Blue Sky in New York City Sun by British Contemporary Urban Landscape Artist

Blue Sky in New York City Sun by British Contemporary Urban Landscape Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Blue Sky, Sunshine on Manhattan Street - Figurative New York City Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield, with dramatic light and colours. Art measures...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Paint, Acrylic, Board, Gesso, Acrylic Polymer, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil

Pyramus and Thisbe
Pyramus and Thisbe

Pyramus and Thisbe

By Augustus Edwin John

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Pyramus and Thisbe Etching, c.1906 Signed along bottom edge in pencil "Augustus E John" Edition: 25 Reference: Dodgson 91 ii/II Condition: Excellent Plate: 5 1/8 x 4" (13.02 x 10.16 ...

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Early 1900s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

Double Gold Pop Gun
Double Gold Pop Gun

Double Gold Pop Gun

By Gavin Turk

Located in Manchester, GB

Gavin Turk, Double Gold Pop Gun, 2013 Silkscreen and gold leaf paper 48 x 52 cm (18.9 x 20.5 in) Edition 23 of 30 Hand-signed and numbered by the artist

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Gold Leaf

"Nettle leaf", Kirlean Photograph, electrophotography, unique piece, Botany
"Nettle leaf", Kirlean Photograph, electrophotography, unique piece, Botany

"Nettle leaf", Kirlean Photograph, electrophotography, unique piece, Botany

By Fred Langford Edwards

Located in Carballo, ES

A unique piece by renowned Irish photographer, Fred Langford Edwards, his documentary photography acts as a kind of super detailed scientist in the field of arts. His work takes plac...

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21st Century and Contemporary Young British Artists (YBA)

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Photographic Paper

Untitled 08
Untitled 08

Untitled 08

By Marc Quinn

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled 08 Series: Eye of History Date: 2013 Medium: Colour Etching on 350gsm paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625" Framed Dimensions: 4...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

Chrysler Building Traffic in New York City by Contemporary British Artist
Chrysler Building Traffic in New York City by Contemporary British Artist

Chrysler Building Traffic in New York City by Contemporary British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Chrysler Building Traffic New York City by Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield. This is a major work from her New York Series. Art measures 18 x 24 inches Frame measures 23...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Cotton, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Empire State Building Eighth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist
Empire State Building Eighth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist

Empire State Building Eighth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Empire State Building Eighth Avenue New York City by Contemporary British Artist Angela Wakefield. This is a major work from her New York Series. Art me...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

Materials

Cotton, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Damien Hirst "H10-3 Theodora" Print
Damien Hirst "H10-3 Theodora" Print

Damien Hirst "H10-3 Theodora" Print

By Damien Hirst

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: H10-3 Theodora Series: The Empresses Date: 2022 Medium: Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with glitter Unframed Dimensio...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Glitter, Giclée

Untitled 03
Untitled 03

Untitled 03

By Marc Quinn

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled 03 Series: Eye of History Date: 2013 Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625" Framed Dimensions: 4...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

Untitled 07
Untitled 07

Untitled 07

By Marc Quinn

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled 07 Series: Eye of History Date: 2013 Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625" Framed Dimensions: 4...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

Untitled 05
Untitled 05

Untitled 05

By Marc Quinn

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Quinn, Marc Title: Untitled 05 Series: Eye of History Date: 2013 Medium: Color Etching on 350gsm paper Unframed Dimensions: 35.9375" x 35.5625" Signature: Signed by...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Etching

The Empresses (Set of 5), Limited Edition, 21st Century, YBA, Giclée Print
The Empresses (Set of 5), Limited Edition, 21st Century, YBA, Giclée Print

The Empresses (Set of 5), Limited Edition, 21st Century, YBA, Giclée Print

By Damien Hirst

Located in Zug, CH

“The Empresses” is a series of five glorious artworks named after influential female rulers. They are composed of butterfly wings placed on a flaming red background which create a kaleidoscope effect. Damien Hirst The Empresses, set of 5 2022 Laminated giclée print on aluminium composite, screen printed with diamond dust 100 × 100 cm (39.4 × 39.4 in) Signed and numbered In matching edition numbers In excellent condition The pieces are offered unframed. Edition numbers might vary from what it is shown in the images “The Empresses” is a series of five glorious prints carefully composed of butterfly wings that create a kaleidoscope effect and are placed on a flaming red background. Each work has been carefully screen printed with glitter coat which offers that gleaming effect on them. Each Empress from this series is named after five...

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2010s Young British Artists (YBA)

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Glitter, Giclée

Young British Artists (yba) art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Young British Artists (YBA) available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of red, blue, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, and Marc Quinn. Frequently made by artists working with Digital Print, and Inkjet Print and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Young British Artists (YBA), so small editions measuring 3.6 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $750 and tops out at $214,080, while the average work sells for $8,194.