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Butterfly Heart (Small), 2020 Damien Hirst Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed and numbered from the edition of 3,510 on a label affixed verso Published by He...

Colour gravure printing process 20.50 x 20.50 in (52.1 x 52.1 cm). Sold in excellent / mint condition. This piece has never been framed or displayed. Originally sold as part of a larger wallpaper...

DAMIEN HIRST Butterfly Heart (Small), 2020 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed and numbered from the edition of 3,510 on a label affixed verso Published by Hen...

DAMIEN HIRST Butterfly Heart (Small), 2020 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed and numbered from the edition of 3,510 on a label affixed verso Published by H...

DAMIEN HIRST Butterfly Heart (Large), 2020 Laminated Giclée print on aluminium composite panel Signed and numbered from the edition of 1,698 on a label affixed verso Published by Hen...

Damien Hirst produced this album design exclusively for the heralded UK music group The Hours in 2009. Housed in a thick card gate-fold picture sleeve with a Bonus 12" x 12" Picture ...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: I Love You Date: 2015 Medium: Silkscreen and foil block Unframed Dimensions: 39.375" x 27.5" Signature: Pencil signed Ed...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Norcamphor Date: 2011 Medium: Woodcut Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 24" Framed Dimensions: 30" x 30" Signature: Pencil signed Edition: /55

This is work by Damien Hirst is created in the artist's signature style: 'Benevolence' with Diamond Dust, 2011, framed approx. 44 x 44 in. Edition of 50. Signed by the Artist “I’ve got an obsession with death … But I think it’s like a celebration of life rather than something morbid.” Damien Hirst The first ‘Kaleidoscope’ painting, ‘It’s a Wonderful World’, was created in 2001. Originally inspired by a Victorian tea tray found by Hirst, the works are made by placing thousands of different coloured butterfly wings in intricate geometric patterns into household paint. Works from the ‘Kaleidoscope’ series were first exhibited as part of ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ at White Cube, London, in 2003. In 2007, Hirst presented a major series of the paintings in the solo show, ‘Superstition’, at Gagosian Gallery, London Davies Street and Beverley Hills. The ‘Kaleidoscope’ paintings reference the spiritual symbolism of the butterfly, used by the Greeks to depict Psyche, the soul, and in Christian imagery to signify the resurrection. The works are reminiscent of, and even sometimes directly copy stained glass windows (‘South Rose Window, Lincoln Cathedral’ (2007)). Their titles similarly often reference Christian iconography, and Hirst chose to name a collection of paintings in 2008 after entries in The Book of Psalms. Whilst the butterfly is one of Hirst’s most enduring “universal triggers”, in the ‘Kaleidoscope’ paintings he differs from his use of it in earlier works. Previously, the inclusion of live butterflies, as in the installation ‘In and Out of Love’ (1991), or whole dead ones in the butterfly monochrome paintings, was partially an exploration of “the way the real butterfly can destroy the ideal (birthday-card) kind of love; the symbol exists apart from the real thing.”[2] Recalling someone once saying to him: “Butterflies are beautiful, but it’s a shame they have disgusting hairy bodies in the middle,” Hirst chose to use only the iridescent wings in the ‘Kaleidoscope’ paintings, divorcing the butterflies from “the real thing”.[3] Titles such as ‘The Most Beautiful Thing in The World’ (2003) reflect the idealised beauty they encapsulate. The two largest ‘Kaleidoscope’ paintings, ‘Enlightenment’ (2008) and ‘I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds’ (2006) measure over 7 x 17 feet, and each include over 2,700 butterflies. Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated "Freeze," an exhibition in a disused warehouse that showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show (which would come to define the Young British Artists), Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. His groundbreaking works include The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991), a shark in formaldehyde; Mother and Child Divided (1993) a four-part sculpture of a bisected cow and calf; and For the Love of God (2007), a human skull studded with 8,601 diamonds. In addition to his installations and sculptures, Hirst’s Spot paintings and Butterfly paintings have become universally recognized. --- British, b. 1965, Bristol, United Kingdom, based in London, United Kingdom SOLO SHOWS 2018 Gagosian, New York, Damien Hirst: Colour Space Paintings 2018 Gagosian, Beverly Hills, Damien Hirst: The Veil Paintings 2017 Gagosian, Central, Hong Kong, Damien Hirst: Visual Candy and Natural History 2015 Fondazione Prada, Milan, Trittico 2010 Gagosian, London, Damien Hirst: Poisons and Remedies 2010 Gagosian, New York, Damien Hirst: End of an Era GROUP SHOWS 2018 Leopold Museum, Vienna, WOW! The Heidi...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Your Beauty Series: The Wonder of You Date: 2015 Medium: Polymer-gravure etchings with lithographic overlays Unframed Dimensions: 36.25" x 26.375" ...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: Six Butterflies I Date: 2011 Medium: Polymer-gravure block prints Unframed Dimensions: 25" x 19.5" Framed Dimensions:...

Artist: Hirst, Damien Title: The Cure (Bright Orange/Orchid/Air Force Blue) Date: 2014 Medium: Silkscreen on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Framed Dimensions: 34.25" x 26" Signa...