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Apocalypse 7 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 7
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£6,000-£9,000Value Indicator

$12,000-$18,000 Value Indicator

$10,500-$16,000 Value Indicator

¥50,000-¥80,000 Value Indicator

7,000-11,000 Value Indicator

$60,000-$90,000 Value Indicator

¥1,140,000-¥1,720,000 Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,500 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 7 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,000 and £9,000. This screenprint, created in 1988, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 4%. This work has an auction history of 8 total sales since its entry to the market on 19th February 2002. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £5,010, across 2 total sales. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,969 in December 2024 to £9,022 in May 2020, with an average annual growth rate of -5%. 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 2024Karl & Faber Germany
December 2024Sotheby's Paris France
May 2020Christie's New York United States
April 2017Sotheby's London United Kingdom
October 2015Phillips New York United States
December 2013Phillips London United Kingdom
October 2003Christie's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

The scene shows an oversized, flesh coloured sperm with devil horns, hovering over the apocalyptic landscape. As the series progresses, the presence of the demonic sperm becomes more menacing and its threatening nature comes to the fore in this print.

In Apocalypse 7 a television monitor shows a volcano erupting, about to devastate the city below. Living through a time of technological acceleration, Haring saw the “machine aesthetic” as a threat to humanity and used the television as a powerful symbol for totalitarian-style manipulation. Haring uses the image of the television screen in this work to symbolise the uncontrollable nature of mass culture.

Using the religious imagery of the final judgement, Haring depicts a mass of piled-up human figures as they escape up the tongue of a crying demon with pig’s snout and horns. A deformed figure climbs a set of stairs just above, representing the entrance or vortex of a hell circle. Faced with the deaths of many of his friends due to AIDS, Apocalypse 7 is indicative of how Haring felt about life and humanity at the time. The Mona Lisa appears again, rendered almost anonymous with her face ripped off and placed on the satanic pig. Haring removes all identifying features from his subjects, serving as a powerful representation of how AIDS has indiscriminately affected many thousands of people, and how their suffering has been met with public indifference.

  • 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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