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Chocolate Buddha 4 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

Chocolate Buddha 4
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

18,000-27,000 Value Indicator

$140,000-$220,000 Value Indicator

¥2,730,000-¥4,150,000 Value Indicator

$18,000-$28,000 Value Indicator

17% 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 4 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £14,500 and £22,000. This lithograph print from 1989 has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of four sales since its entry to the market on 11th April 2019. Over the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £9,000 in February 2023 to £17,927 in December 2020. The average annual growth rate of this work is 17%. 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
February 2023Tate Ward Auctions United Kingdom
September 2022Bonhams Los Angeles United States
December 2020Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago United States
April 2019Wright United States

Meaning & Analysis

Completed the year before Haring’s death, this late print amalgamates the artist’s clear-line figurative style with a more complex and integrated composition to form a highly abstracted image. Recalling styles of the ancient world such as Eastern Mandalas and Australian Aboriginal art, Chocolate Buddha 4 also shows influence from the European Modernists such as Miro, Klee and Matisse. This is notable from the way in which the print focuses on flat, richly coloured shapes and patterns that play out across the image surface.

Chocolate Buddha 4 includes phallic and sperm-like illustrations that seemingly move across the print, injecting the print with a focus on male sexuality. 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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