Damien Hirst H15-4 Gabriel For Sale

About this work

H15-4 Gabriel is a giclée print on archival fine art paper created by Damien Hirst in 2021, the final work in the H15 Archangels series. Measuring 20½ by 56¾ inches in its panoramic, horizontal format, the print is derived from the fourth of the Cherry Blossoms quadriptychs named for the archangels, completing the series cycle. Gabriel — the messenger archangel, the voice of divine announcement — lends this concluding work a sense of declaration and culmination appropriate to its position as the series' finale. In Abrahamic tradition, Gabriel is the archangel who brings tidings of transformation — annunciations of birth, revelation, and change. Within the context of Hirst's Cherry Blossoms series — paintings that engage with the transient beauty of nature and the certainty of change — this association resonates with particular depth. The print's quadriptych format presents four compositional moments from the Cherry Blossoms paintings in horizontal sequence, and as the final work in the Archangels series, Gabriel carries the accumulated resonances of the works that have preceded it. The archival fine art paper ensures the exceptional longevity of the print, appropriate to the seriousness of the underlying work. Damien Hirst is one of the most celebrated and internationally recognized artists of the contemporary period. His Cherry Blossoms paintings, and the Archangels prints derived from them, represent a significant development in his ongoing engagement with the themes of life, beauty, transience, and mortality. H15-4 Gabriel, as the conclusion of the Archangels series, holds a particular significance within this body of work — it is the final statement in a carefully structured four-part meditation. As a giclée print on archival paper, it offers exceptional quality of reproduction and long-term stability appropriate to a major collection.