The Blueprint Drawings 16
The Blueprint Drawings 16
Signed Print
Keith Haring
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 33
Year: 1990
Size: H 98cm x W 108cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Location | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2015 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| April 2015 | Christie's New York | United States | |||
| October 2014 | Phillips New York | United States | |||
| May 2009 | Bonhams San Francisco | United States |
Meaning & Analysis
Completed the year of the artist's tragic death by AIDS in 1990, this signed screen print is a limited edition of 33 from Keith Haring’s The Blueprint Drawings series. The Blueprint Drawings 16 shows a genderless figure falling down a set of stairs with the glowing stick in its hand.
Originally produced as unique works on paper with Sumi ink, Haring displayed these works in a one-week exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 where not a single drawing was sold. However, he did find success in the sale of several blueprint copies of the original drawings and so revisited the subject in 1990, a month before his tragic death creating a portfolio of 17 screen prints of the original images.
Communicating complex ideas through a simplistic visual language, this series incorporates some of Haring’s most recognisable pictograms and represents one of his most accomplished works. Stairs are a prominent motif in The Blueprint Drawings series, with figures running up and falling down, and are always covered in dots, to symbolise the otherness of homosexuality and illness.
A sense of movement and dynamism is created in the print through Haring’s use of graphic action lines and dotted surface of the stairs. As with other prints in the series, The Blueprint Drawings 16 is striking in its graphic simplicity limited to black line against a white background.
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
