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Damien Hirst H18-5 Intricacy For Sale
Damien Hirst
H18-5 Intricacy, 2024
Diasec mounted Giclée on aluminium Signed and numbered
33 1/2 x 55 1/8 in 85 x 140 cm
Edition
Edition of 180 + 20 AP
About this work
H18-5 Intricacy is a diasec-mounted giclée on aluminium created by Damien Hirst in 2024, part of his H18 Kaleidoscopes series. Produced in an edition of 180 plus 20 Artist's Proofs and measuring 33½ by 55⅛ inches, the work takes its title from the extraordinary complexity of detail that characterizes Hirst's butterfly wing compositions. Where other works in the series take their names from chromatic or transformative qualities, Intricacy foregrounds the formal achievement of the compositions themselves — the painstaking arrangement of natural materials into geometric patterns of great delicacy and precision. The butterfly wings employed in Hirst's Kaleidoscopes compositions are arranged with a symmetrical precision that the work's title acknowledges directly. The result is a visual field of extraordinary complexity, in which individual wings — each themselves a miniature masterwork of natural patterning — are organized into larger geometric forms that create multiple levels of pattern simultaneously. The diasec mounting process achieves a depth and clarity of surface that allows the full intricacy of the composition to be perceived, even as the overall symmetrical structure creates the mesmerizing, rotational visual momentum that animates the series as a whole. Damien Hirst is one of the most significant and widely recognized artists working today. His butterfly works, produced since the early 1990s, have become among the most instantly identifiable images in contemporary art, celebrated for their visual beauty and engaged for their complex philosophical implications around nature, mortality, and the aesthetics of collection. H18-5 Intricacy, as a recent work from the Kaleidoscopes series, represents the technical and conceptual refinement of this long-standing body of work, and as a diasec-mounted edition achieves a level of presentation quality appropriate to the most significant private collections.
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Edition & Provenance
- Year
- 2024
- Medium
- Diasec mounted Giclée on aluminium Signed and numbered
- Edition
- Edition of 180 + 20 AP
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Damien Hirst prints for sale at Guy Hepner include works from the Spot Paintings, Butterfly editions, Beautiful prints, and Pharmaceutical series. Damien Hirst art for sale and Damien Hirst original art for sale through our New York gallery are sourced from authenticated secondary market collections. We also advise collectors looking to sell Damien Hirst prints — free valuations available.
Damien Hirst is the defining figure of the Young British Artists movement and one of the most collected living artists in the world. His work spans Natural History sculptures, Spot Paintings, Butterfly Works, Spin Paintings, and pharmaceutical installations ? series that have set auction benchmarks at Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips across four decades. Collections at Tate Modern, MoMA, and the Guggenheim confirm his standing as one of the essential artists of his generation.
His single-artist auction "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" generated $198 million at Sotheby's in 2008, a record that remains one of the most significant events in the contemporary art market. Major works including the Lullaby series of medicine cabinets and the Natural History formaldehyde sculptures have each achieved prices above $10 million, while his Spot Paintings and print editions sustain deep, global secondary market activity across all price points.
Guy Hepner Gallery has deep expertise across Damien Hirst's print editions, Spot Paintings, and Butterfly Works, offering acquisition guidance, market valuations, and direct access to available works. Whether you are building a collection or looking to sell, the gallery provides trusted, confidential support for one of the most actively traded names in contemporary art.