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Apocalypse 2 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 2
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£5,000-£7,500Value Indicator

$10,000-$15,000 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,500 Value Indicator

¥45,000-¥70,000 Value Indicator

6,000-9,000 Value Indicator

$50,000-$70,000 Value Indicator

¥940,000-¥1,410,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$9,500 Value Indicator

-5% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 90

Year: 1988

Size: H 97cm x W 97cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring’s Apocalypse 2 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,000 and £7,500. This screenprint, created in 1988, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale in June 2004. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £6,713, across 2 total sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has varied from £4,600 in July 2024 to £8,826 in April 2024. The current owner can expect an average annual growth rate of -5%. This artwork is rare, with an auction history of 10 total sales. The edition size of this piece is limited to 90.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
July 2024Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers United Kingdom
April 2024Wright United States
May 2023Uppsala Auktionskammare Sweden
April 2022Dorotheum, Vienna Austria
September 2021Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
July 2021Christie's New York United States
June 2021Germann Auctions Switzerland

Meaning & Analysis

Showing a perplexing scene of dystopian chaos, solid, heavy lines are used by Haring to depict the densely populated scene. Thick strokes, splatters of primary colour and harsh gestural marks produce jolts of violence and dynamism. Haring’s phallocentric universe is shown in a state of war, emphasised by explosions, collisions, army vehicles and menacing humanoids falling from the sky.

Apocalypse 2 directly relates death and danger to sexuality and promiscuity. Phalluses in the image are conceptualised as instruments of war, shooting at humanoids and causing destruction. As an adolescent, Haring witnessed the traumatising events of the Vietnam War on television and undoubtedly this had a lasting effect on his artwork. The dismaying realities of the AIDS epidemic, and Haring’s subsequent diagnosis in 1988, are depicted in this post-apocalyptic scene as acts of total violence and devastation, likened to the wars that Haring witnessed on TV in his youth.

As with Apocalypse 1, Haring uses collage to reproduce and duplicate Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Haring undermines the cerebral nature of fine art through defacement and duplication. In this print the Mona Lisa has been cut up and vandalised by black felt lines. As such, her beauty is wholly perverted. Just as his good friend Jean-Michel Basquiat had done before him, Haring used his unique graffiti style to erode boundaries between the public and the world of high art.

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