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Retrospect - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

Retrospect
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£80,000-£130,000Value Indicator

$160,000-$260,000 Value Indicator

$140,000-$230,000 Value Indicator

¥730,000-¥1,190,000 Value Indicator

100,000-160,000 Value Indicator

$780,000-$1,270,000 Value Indicator

¥15,310,000-¥24,890,000 Value Indicator

$100,000-$160,000 Value Indicator

-9% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 75

Year: 1989

Size: H 116cm x W 208cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's Retrospect (signed), a screenprint from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £80,000 and £130,000. This artwork has been sold 18 times at auction since its initial sale on 12th December 2001. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £60,000, across a total of 1 sale. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied from £60,000 in September 2024 to £150,000 in March 2020, with an average annual growth rate of -9%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 75.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2024Sotheby's London United Kingdom
March 2020Sotheby's London United Kingdom
October 2019Christie's New York United States
September 2019Christie's London United Kingdom
September 2018Christie's London United Kingdom
March 2018Sotheby's London United Kingdom
April 2017Sotheby's New York United States

Meaning & Analysis

Retrospect is indicative of Haring’s desire to create a universal pictorial language that emanates positivity and can be understood by adults and children alike. In using saturated colours, thick outlines and flattened pictorial surface, Haring plays into the visual culture of commercialism and advertisement that characterised 1980s New York. Through enlargement of scale and by establishing his trademark style, Haring brings commercialism into the realm of fine art, fulfilling his populist ideas around creating art for the masses.

Each frame in Retrospect shows a strikingly simplistic figure dancing and moving in a way that radiates a joyous energy to the viewer. This is emphasised by Haring’s use of action lines across the grid and saturated colour palette. Many of these images were taken from Haring’s original Pop Shop series (1988), where he sold these prints at an affordable price to the public.

  • 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