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Flowers III - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1990 - MyArtBroker

Flowers III
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£15,000-£23,000Value Indicator

$30,000-$45,000 Value Indicator

$27,000-$40,000 Value Indicator

¥140,000-¥210,000 Value Indicator

18,000-28,000 Value Indicator

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¥2,840,000-¥4,350,000 Value Indicator

$19,000-$29,000 Value Indicator

7% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 100

Year: 1990

Size: H 99cm x W 129cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring’s Flowers III (signed) is estimated to be worth between £15,000 and £23,000. This screenprint, created in 1990, has an impressive auction history, having been sold 5 times at auction since its initial sale in April 2008. The average annual growth rate of this work is 7% and over the past five years, the hammer price has shown steady growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2020Phillips London United Kingdom
May 2013Christie's New York United States
May 2011Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
October 2008Christie's New York United States
April 2008Sotheby's London United Kingdom

Meaning & Analysis

Following his AIDS diagnosis in 1988, Haring completed the Flowers series only months before his tragic death in 1990. Flowers III is executed with dense, rhythmic lines and the screen print ink has been allowed to drip down the image, forming thin streaks of colour that stand out against the solid black outlines. The drip lines and splatter marks were intentionally left by Haring as an expression of his bodily suffering, whilst also to acknowledge the legacy of figures like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning from the Abstract Expressionist movement.

The Flowers series represents plant forms and growth with bright, artificial colours. In Flowers III, Haring uses coloured dots and holes to denote the otherness of homosexuality and illness, specifically AIDS, at the time. The flower figures that Haring carefully chooses as his subject matter throughout the print series, are deliberately ambiguous in their phallic nature. Through the use of colour and pattern, Flowers III employs a joyful visual language and flower-like shapes to allude to the fragility of life and closeness to death for those living with HIV/AIDS in the 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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