Damien Hirst - Butterfly Heart (Small & Large)

Damien Hirst

Butterfly Heart (2020)

Laminated Giclee print on aluminium composite panel

Small: 36.5 x 35cm (4.3 x 13.8in)

Large: 72.7 x 70cm (28.6 x 27.6in)

Brand new, in original HENI packaging

H7-4- Edition of 3,510

H7-3 Edition of 1,698

Signed by the artist verso with printed signature

Butterfly Heart forms part of Damien Hirst’s ongoing exploration of the butterfly as a symbol of beauty, fragility, and transcendence. In this edition, Hirst arranges vibrant butterfly wings into a perfectly symmetrical heart, creating a composition that is both intimate and visually arresting. The work draws on the artist’s long‑standing fascination with the tension between life and death, using the butterfly — a recurring motif throughout his career — as a metaphor for transformation and the fleeting nature of existence.

The heart shape introduces a distinctly emotional dimension, softening the formal precision of the arrangement and inviting a more personal reading. Colour plays a central role: the wings shift from luminous pastels to saturated jewel tones, producing a sense of movement and radiance across the surface. Printed with exceptional clarity and mounted on aluminium composite, the edition captures the tactile delicacy of the original butterfly works while offering a contemporary, highly polished finish