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Pop Shop III, Plate III - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

Pop Shop III, Plate III
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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34 x 42cm, Edition of 200, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 200
Year: 1989
Size: H 34cm x W 42cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: October 2024
Value Trend:
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Auction House
Location
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Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
October 2024
Sotheby's New York
United States
$16,000
$19,000
$24,000
June 2023
Swann Galleries
United States
July 2020
Leonard Joel, Melbourne
Australia
July 2020
Sotheby's New York
United States
April 2020
Sotheby's New York
United States
November 2019
Phillips Hong Kong
Hong Kong
May 2019
Swann Galleries
United States
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The value of Keith Haring’s Pop Shop III, Plate III (signed) is estimated to be worth between £17,000 and £26,000. This screenprint, created in 1989, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 2%. This work has an auction history of nine total sales since its entry to the market in January 2012. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £14,686, across one total sale. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £11,050 in July 2020 to £19,130 in June 2023. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 200.

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Meaning & Analysis

Haring’s famous Pop Shop series is a testament to the artist’s ingenuity when it came to translating his drawings to the medium of screen printing. The title, a reference to his famous Pop Shop which opened in Manhattan’s SoHo in 1986, also represents his desire to make art accessible to everyone by producing large editions of affordable prints.

Aimed at kids and collectors alike, the Pop Shops were a place where Haring could sell his art for as little as 50 cents. The store stocked t-shirts, badges and magnets featuring his now ubiquitous designs. While the project was praised by friends such as Andy Warhol, who was fascinated by the possibilities of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, it was snubbed by many leading art world figures who placed more value on original works of art. Speaking of the importance of opening the shop as opposed to making large canvases to please collectors, Haring said, “I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price. My shop is an extension of what I was doing in the subway stations, breaking down the barriers between high and low art.”

Printed in five layers of colour – grey, black, green, red and yellow – this work shows Haring’s mastery of screen printing as a medium. Though he had experimented with print techniques such as lithography in the late 70s and 80s it wasn’t until 1983 that Haring began making screen prints, or serigraphs, which offered a way of creating multiple images, that artists had adopted from the world of commercial printing. This move to screen printing was undoubtedly due in part to the method being popularised by Warhol, one of Haring’s most important influences, and soon he was producing ever more inventive and daring work.

It soon became evident that the energy and curiosity he demonstrated for painting translated perfectly into printmaking and he began to work with publishers across the US, Switzerland, Japan, Germany, France, Denmark and Holland. The prints featuring singular images were released as portfolios of four, each from an edition of 200, while the Quad prints— compiling four images in a grid format— were released in an edition of 75. Totalling 875 prints featuring the grey-yellow-turquoise-red Pop Shop III artworks and exemplifying the prolific productivity of Haring’s printmaking, each individual print nevertheless reflects the attentive care paid by Haring throughout the production process. Though initially the singular Pop Shop III prints were released as four-part portfolios (and remain extremely valuable in their original sets of matching edition numbers) many portfolios have inevitably been divided.

By the time of his death, Haring had produced so many prints that the exact number has become impossible to count. There are many unsigned editions on the market, though these tend only to be considered valuable if approved by the Keith Haring Foundation. Today his prints are frequently among the most sought after multiples on the market.

  • 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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