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Bad Boys 1 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1986 - MyArtBroker

Bad Boys 1
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£3,650-£5,500Value Indicator

$7,000-$11,000 Value Indicator

$6,500-$10,000 Value Indicator

¥35,000-¥50,000 Value Indicator

4,400-6,500 Value Indicator

$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥690,000-¥1,030,000 Value Indicator

$4,550-$7,000 Value Indicator

29% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 30

Year: 1986

Size: H 51cm x W 66cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's Bad Boys 1 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,650 and £5,500. There have been two sales at auction since its entry to the market in March 2020. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £2,994. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £2,994 in December 2024 to £3,200 in March 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is 29%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 30.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
December 2024Wright United States
March 2020Forum Auctions London United Kingdom
December 1992Christie's Amsterdam Netherlands

Meaning & Analysis

Bad Boys 1 shows three figures depicted in an abstract visual language of frenzied black lines. Reminiscent of the bold lines of Pre-Columbian art – especially those of Nazca lines – and aboriginal art, this work is representative of Haring’s debt to non-western artistic traditions. Haring conveys a unique sense of energy and optimism in this print through his use of freehand drawing methods that fill the interior of the figures’ bodies.

Haring’s Bad Boys series reflects the artist’s advocacy for LGBT+ rights against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. In the later stage of his artistic career, themes around sex and HIV/AIDS dominated his work, just as it dominated Haring’s personal life after his own AIDS diagnosis in 1988. Using sexually explicit subject matter and unambiguous phallic forms throughout the series as a whole, Bad Boys 1 makes clear Haring’s celebration of his sexuality.

  • 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