Name: H6-4 Goodness
Brand: Damien Hirst
Rating: 5 (231 reviews)

Track auction value trend

Damien Hirst's H6-4 Goodness (signed) is a Giclée print from 2019, with an estimated value between £17,000 and £25,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £8,500 in March 2020 to £25,795 in January 2022. This is a rare work, having been sold 5 times at auction since its entry to the market in April 2018. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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January 2023

Phillips London

United Kingdom

August 2022

Sotheby's Online

United Kingdom

January 2022

Phillips London

United Kingdom

March 2020

Forum Auctions London

United Kingdom

April 2018

Phillips London

United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Taken from Damien Hirst’s 2015 The Aspects series, H6-4 Goodness is a giclée print that shows an intricate kaleidoscopic pattern made up of many varying butterfly wings. The print shows an array of blue hues and the geometric composition is made up of concentric circles.

Evocative of stained glass windows in Gothic architecture, H6-4 Goodness conflates the scientific with the aesthetic. Hirst uses the wings of butterflies in varying shades of blue to create the geometric pattern, appearing almost like insects on display in a natural history museum. The aesthetic comes into play in the creation of a beautiful pattern exuding a kinetic energy that is exciting and mesmerising to look at. The entire of The Aspects series is made up of varying shades of blue as Hirst uses the same species of butterfly wings to form the pattern in each print.

For Hirst, the butterfly is a ‘universal trigger’ that many people share in finding attractive and joyous. Recalling someone once saying to him: “Butterflies are beautiful, but it’s a shame they have disgusting hairy bodies in the middle,” Hirst in works like this chose only to display the dazzling wings in H6-4 Goodness. Across the series, the butterfly wing is rendered unrecognisable when viewed at a distance and as part of a larger intricate pattern.