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Keith Haring

Untitled 1986 Signed Print

Untitled 1986

Keith Haring

Untitled 1986
Signed Print

Name: Untitled 1986
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 5 (234 reviews)

Keith Haring

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 38

Year: 1986

Size: H 50cm x W 67cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring’s Untitled 1986 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £17,000 and £25,000. This lithograph print from 1986 has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of six total sales since its entry to the market in March 2006. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £11,402 in September 2018 to £16,078 in May 2022. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 38.

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Auction Results

Auction Date	Auction House	Location
December 2020	Artcurial	France
April 2015	Phillips New York	United States
June 2014	Ketterer Kunst Hamburg	Germany
March 2013	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom
December 2008	Ketterer Kunst Hamburg	Germany
October 2007	Christie's New York	United States
March 2006	Sotheby's London	United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

This signed lithograph from 1986 is a limited edition of 38 by Keith Haring. Untitled shows a monstrous figure depicted in the artist’s iconic linear style, from which countless figures grow from and are conjoined to its limbs. Haring depicts the central figure in white with bold, dark outlines, set against a bright yellow backdrop.

Typical of Haring’s figurative style, rounded lines are used to create a sense of energy and movement in the print, as though these figures are dancing or working with one another. Pre-empting works like the artist’s Growing series (1988), Untitled 1986 shows a mutated version of these more orderly, symmetrical prints of conjoined figures. This print exudes chaos and violence with its central figure seemingly moving and growing without control.

Untitled is uncompromising in its positive, comic tone with Haring’s use of colour and simplified shapes. However, upon closer examination Haring’s subject carries menacing connotations about greed and hellishness. Indeed, this year marked a transition in Haring’s life and career, as the AIDS epidemic overwhelmed the LGBT community. In the later stage of his artistic career, themes around violence and HIV/AIDS dominated his work, just as it dominated Haring’s personal life after his own AIDS diagnosis in 1988.

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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