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The Story Of Red And Blue 5 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

The Story Of Red And Blue 5
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 90

Year: 1989

Size: H 56cm x W 42cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Keith Haring's The Story Of Red And Blue 5 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,500 and £3,700. This lithograph print from 1989 is a rare artwork, with an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market in May 2013. Over the past five years, the hammer price has varied, demonstrating the potential for value growth. 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
April 2021Larsen Gallery United States
March 2017Bonhams Knightsbridge United Kingdom
June 2014Karl & Faber Germany
May 2013Kaupp Auktions House Germany

Meaning & Analysis

Presented in the form of a children’s story book, this series is representative of Haring’s desire to create a visual language that appealed to both children and adults alike. Throughout the series he limits his colour palette to bright red and blue and renders each image in his distinctive linear style with black rounded lines.

The Story Of Red And Blue 5 shows an egg-shaped figure outlined in thick red brushstrokes, it’s smiling face depicted as a single-line drawing. Appearing to sit happily on a brick wall, Haring is deliberately referring to the character from the famous children’s nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. Throughout the series Haring loosely refers to a variety of children’s fictional characters so as to make clear his allusion to the notion of a storybook.

Across the first half of the series, each print alternates in colour between red and blue and by the end of the series the two colours appear together in the prints. In each print Haring uses simplified and generic pictograms to produce the effect of a children’s story book without a sensical storyline, where instead the story seems to focus abstractly on the colours red and blue.

  • 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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