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Bad Boys 4 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1986 - MyArtBroker

Bad Boys 4
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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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 4 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £4,600 and £7,000. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £1,911 in March 2023 to £5,162 in June 2022. This screenprint has shown a positive value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work is somewhat rare, having been sold 3 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2022. 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
March 2023Palm Beach Modern Auctions United States
June 2022Bonhams New York United States
April 2022Wright United States

Meaning & Analysis

Haring himself was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and subsequently the subject of sex and sexuality dominated his work in the latter part of his career, before his tragic death in 1990. This image is charged with a sense of fun as well as being sexually explicit in its subject matter. Haring’s use of free flowing lines that fill the interior of the figure’s body create a sense of energy and dynamism that catches the viewer’s eye.

Writing of Keith Haring in the catalogue for the artist’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1997, David Ross states that “His use of simplified figurative abstract forms and his highly graphic style gave his works an immediate character, the complexity of his puzzlelike constructions pulled the viewer deeply into a unique picture space. Haring’s art radiated energy and he carefully directed that energy beyond the confines of the art world.” This is evident in the Bad Boys series, a set of five prints in black and white that recall Haring’s subway drawings from the early 1980s.

  • 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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