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Apocalypse 5 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 5
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£6,000-£8,500Value Indicator

$12,000-$17,000 Value Indicator

$10,500-$15,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥80,000 Value Indicator

7,000-10,500 Value Indicator

$60,000-$80,000 Value Indicator

¥1,150,000-¥1,630,000 Value Indicator

$7,500-$10,500 Value Indicator

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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 5 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £8,500. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £6,305, across a total of 3 sales. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10%. This work is popular in the market, having been sold 16 times since its initial sale in November 1998. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,969 in December 2024 to £8,826 in April 2024. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Wright United States
December 2024Karl & Faber Germany
December 2024Sotheby's Paris France
April 2024Wright United States
September 2023Sotheby's London United Kingdom
March 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
September 2021Bonhams Los Angeles United States

Meaning & Analysis

Haring pushes Christian iconography to its extremes in this print, showing two serpent creatures attacking a phallic Christ figure. A collaged image of Christ forms the head of a phallus in this print that shows snake-like figures, symbolising sin, evil and Satan, attacking the Christ figure. Haring uses his trademark pop-graffiti style to contrast good and evil, as well as to bring ideas of religion and sexuality into the same realm.

Apocalypse 5 appropriates and reworks Christian iconography to reflect the chaos of contemporary life and the imagined horrors of the world’s end. By using religious symbols like the serpent and Christ, Haring gives this print a moralistic charge. To address those who have remained ambivalent to the horrors of contemporary events, most especially the AIDS epidemic, Haring consciously pushes religious imagery to its extremes. By placing the Christ figure in a hell-like scene, Haring invokes utter disdain and profanity to the viewer.

Throughout the Apocalypse series, Haring uses a pictographic style inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics and bright colours to communicate clear-cut moralistic messages. One of Haring’s most famous pictograms, the barking dog, appears in Apocalypse 5. First appearing in his subway drawings from the early 1980s, the barking dog is used to represent abuses of power by the government and oppressive regimes that demand obedience. This rings true in the context of Haring’s Apocalypse series that creates a pictographic social commentary on the American government’s silence and complicity in the deaths of many thousands of people due to AIDS.

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