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014 - Psalm 107: Confitemini Domino, 2008
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Details
Medium: butterflies and household gloss on canvas
Year: 2008
Canvas size: 18" diameter
Framed size: 18.75" diameter
Signature: signed, titled and dated on verso
Year: 2008
Canvas size: 18" diameter
Framed size: 18.75" diameter
Signature: signed, titled and dated on verso
About the Work
"Psalm 107: Confitemini Domino" is a butterflies and household gloss on canvas painting created by Damien Hirst in 2008. The artwork is signed, titled and dated on verso. The artwork ships framed in a custom contemporary plexi-box frame and has a framed size of 18.75 x 18.75".
Damien Hirst’s butterfly paintings are among the most recognizable works of his career, bringing together beauty, fragility, preservation, and mortality in a single image. In these works, the butterfly is both seductive and unsettling: a symbol of life and transformation, but also a real, preserved body fixed permanently to the painted surface.
"Psalm 107: Confitemini Domino" belongs to Hirst’s 2008 "Psalm" series, a group of 150 circular butterfly paintings named after the Psalms of the Old Testament. Each work uses butterflies in a kaleidoscopic arrangement, creating compositions that recall stained glass, mandalas, and church rose windows. The effect is decorative at first glance, but the longer one looks, the more complicated the image becomes. Hirst turns natural color and symmetry into something devotional, fragile, and slightly uncanny.
This example is compact but visually complete. Measuring 18 inches in diameter, it has the clarity of a small devotional object rather than the scale of a conventional painting. The lavender ground gives the work a calm, almost luminous atmosphere, while the butterflies create a strong circular rhythm around the central specimen. Yellows, oranges, whites, blacks, and iridescent blues move around the surface in ordered rings, balancing natural beauty with the precision of Hirst’s studio language.
The title, "Confitemini Domino," refers to Psalm 107, which begins with a call to give thanks. That reference adds another layer to the work’s religious structure. Hirst is not making a traditional religious painting, but he borrows the visual and emotional architecture of sacred art: the circle, the radiant pattern, the jewel-like color, and the sense of looking into something preserved outside ordinary time.
"Psalm 107: Confitemini Domino" is best understood as a refined, accessible example of Hirst’s butterfly practice. It offers the key elements collectors look for in this body of work — real butterflies, gloss surface, symmetry, mortality, beauty, and strong documentation — in a scale that is intimate, collectible, and easy to live with.
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