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Keith Haring

Untitled 1983 Signed Print

Untitled 1983

Keith Haring

Untitled 1983
Signed Print

Name: Untitled 1983
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Keith Haring

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Medium: Woodcut

Edition size: 60

Year: 1983

Size: H 61cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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Keith Haring's Untitled 1983, a signed woodcut print from an edition of 60, is estimated to be worth between £30,000 and £45,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. There have been 7 total sales since its entry to the market in March 2006. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £30,596 in April 2017 to £37,288 in September 2019.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
March 2024	SBI Art Auction	Japan
March 2016	Christie's New York	United States
January 2016	Phillips London	United Kingdom
October 2013	Phillips New York	United States
November 2010	Phillips New York	United States
October 2010	Phillips London	United Kingdom
March 2006	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

This signed woodcut from 1983 is a limited edition of 60 by Keith Haring. Untitled shows two genderless figures falling backwards over one another depicted in the artist’s highly recognisable linear style. The figures are rendered with thick, rounded red lines and finer black squiggly lines fill their bodies and the surrounding space to form a frenzied, all-over composition.

Haring’s print strikes a balance between pattern and figuration in such a way that recalls the art of Australian Aborigines, something that the artist claimed to be unaware of. The use of flat, block colours further emphasises the abstract surface pattern of the image, with the thick, bright red lines set in contrast to the black linear pattern. Untitled 1983 has a compulsive quality that fills out across the canvas that contrasts to Haring’s typical use of simplified form and block colour.

Untitled bursts with a sense of energy and dynamism that is characteristic of Haring’s work throughout his entire career. Haring was concerned with the idea of the democratisation of art and used his positive visual language as a form of activism. Seeking to dissolve the boundaries between fine art, political activism and popular culture, Haring’s works like Untitled 1983 bridge the gap between high art and mass consumerism.

Keith Haring was a luminary of the 1980s downtown New York scene. His distinctive visual language pioneered one-line Pop Art drawings and he has been famed for his colourful, playful imagery. Haring's iconic energetic motifs and figures were dedicated to influencing social change, and particularly challenging stigma around the AIDS epidemic. Haring also pushed for the accessibility of art by opening Pop Shops in New York and Japan, selling a range of ephemera starting from as little as 50 cents. Haring's legacy has been cemented in the art-activism scene and is a testament to power of art to inspire social change

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