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Apocalypse 8 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 8
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 90

Year: 1988

Size: H 96cm x W 96cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's Apocalypse 8 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,000 and £7,500. In the last five years, the hammer price ranges from £6,490 in May 2023 to £7,223 in February 2021. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of eight total sales since its entry to the market in June 2004. 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
June 2024Rago United States
May 2023Uppsala Auktionskammare Sweden
March 2023Sotheby's Online United Kingdom
October 2022Venduehuis der Notarissen Netherlands
December 2021Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris France
February 2021Rago United States

Meaning & Analysis

The screen print Apocalypse 8 continues themes of hellishness and promiscuity that characterises the series as a whole. Framed by the number 666, the number of the Beast in the Book of Revelations and common symbol for Satan, Haring’s print explicitly points to the idea of Hell itself.

Apocalypse 8 shows a magazine clipping of a 1950s-era young girl, posing cheerfully in a frilly white dress to celebrate the Christian sacrament of First Communion. As with other prints in the series, Haring uses collage to shock the viewer and create a dialogue between dissimilar worlds. Placed among drawings of grotesque beasts, satanic symbols and promiscuity, Haring uses his linear style to deface the child and add mutating limbs that reflect the chaos around her. Lines radiating from the child’s head are reminiscent of his Radiant Baby 1990), glowing with an energy that renders her as sacred. An unusual but effective medium for the artist, collage works to inject a moment of purity and unrelenting optimism into the violent terrain occupied by the surrounding socio-cultural demons.

In this print, AIDS is explicitly represented as a plague in Hell. Haring depicts a glory hole in pastel blue, through which an ejaculating phallus is visible. Especially associated with gay culture, the glory hole alludes to the way in which AIDS was stigmatised as the ‘gay plague’ in 1980s America and the personified virus, the horned ‘devil sperm’, shoots upwards as though born out of this promiscuous activity. humour, Keith Haring is one of the most influential and adored artists of the 20th century.

  • 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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