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Chocolate Buddha 3 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

Chocolate Buddha 3
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£14,500-£22,000Value Indicator

$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

$26,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

¥130,000-¥200,000 Value Indicator

17,000-27,000 Value Indicator

$140,000-$220,000 Value Indicator

¥2,780,000-¥4,210,000 Value Indicator

$18,000-$28,000 Value Indicator

23% AAGR

AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 90

Year: 1989

Size: H 56cm x W 70cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's Chocolate Buddha 3, a signed lithograph print from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £14,500 and £22,000. This artwork has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 23%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of three sales since its entry to the market in January 2015. Over the past five years, the hammer price has increased, providing an average annual return to the seller of £8,681. 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
September 2022Bonhams Los Angeles United States
October 2015Larsen Gallery United States
January 2015Phillips London United Kingdom
June 1995Christie's Amsterdam Netherlands

Meaning & Analysis

Completed the year before Haring’s death, this series amalgamates the artist’s clear-line figurative style with more complex patterns to form highly abstracted images. Recalling styles of the ancient world such as Eastern Mandalas and Australian Aboriginal art, the Chocolate Buddha series also shows influence from the European Modernists such as Miro, Klee and Matisse. This is notable from the way in which the prints focus on flat, richly coloured shapes and patterns that play out across the image surface.

Chocolate Buddha 3 includes the ‘devil sperm’ motif, injecting the print with a focus on the threat of male homosexuality. This motif is seen in many other later works like the Apocalypse series (1988), where Haring directly correlates sexuality with death in his depiction of enormous horned sperm, a demoniacal personification of death in relation to the AIDS virus. 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.

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