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The King - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

The King
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£13,500-£20,000Value Indicator

$27,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

$24,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

¥120,000-¥180,000 Value Indicator

16,000-24,000 Value Indicator

$130,000-$200,000 Value Indicator

¥2,580,000-¥3,830,000 Value Indicator

$17,000-$25,000 Value Indicator

17% AAGR

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 50

Year: 1989

Size: H 56cm x W 76cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's The King, a signed lithograph print from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £13,500 and £20,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 17%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of 4 total sales since its entry to the market on 11th December 2013. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £13,387, with a total sales volume of 1. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £13,387 in November 2024 to £15,924 in February 2024. The average return to the seller over the past five years has been £12,457. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 50.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
November 2024Kunst & Kuriosa Germany
February 2024Rago United States
September 2018Christie's London United Kingdom
December 2013Phillips London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Completed the year of Haring’s tragic AIDS diagnosis in 1988, this print is expressive of the artist’s feelings towards his illness due to his use of splatter marks and visceral brushstrokes. Notably Haring seems to convey a sense of time running out and its relation to death in his depiction of hourglass sand timers and skeletons.

The central figure in Haring’s The King print is a large, robotic head wearing a large crown and tentacles growing as hair. Beneath the linear drawing of the figure’s face is a newspaper clipping of an unidentifiable group of people. Inspired by figures like Andy Warhol from the Pop Art movement of the 1960s, Haring inserts images like this from mass media to bridge the gap between high art and mass consumerism so as to dissolve boundaries between fine art, political activism and popular culture.

  • 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