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Apocalypse 2 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 2
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£5,500-£8,500Value Indicator

$11,500-$18,000 Value Indicator

$10,000-$16,000 Value Indicator

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¥1,090,000-¥1,680,000 Value Indicator

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97 x 97cm, Edition of 90, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 90
Year: 1988
Size: H 97cm x W 97cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: July 2024
Value Trend:
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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
July 2024
Adam Partridge Auctioneers & Valuers
United Kingdom
£3,910
£4,600
£5,520
April 2024
Wright
United States
May 2023
Uppsala Auktionskammare
Sweden
April 2022
Dorotheum, Vienna
Austria
September 2021
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
July 2021
Christie's New York
United States
June 2021
Germann Auctions
Switzerland
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The value of Keith Haring’s Apocalypse 2 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £5,500 and £8,500. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an auction history of 10 total sales since its entry to the market in June 2004. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £4,600, across 1 total sale. Over the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,600 in July 2024 to £8,826 in April 2024. The average annual growth rate of this work is -5%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

Showing a perplexing scene of dystopian chaos, solid, heavy lines are used by Haring to depict the densely populated scene. Thick strokes, splatters of primary colour and harsh gestural marks produce jolts of violence and dynamism. Haring’s phallocentric universe is shown in a state of war, emphasised by explosions, collisions, army vehicles and menacing humanoids falling from the sky.

Apocalypse 2 directly relates death and danger to sexuality and promiscuity. Phalluses in the image are conceptualised as instruments of war, shooting at humanoids and causing destruction. As an adolescent, Haring witnessed the traumatising events of the Vietnam War on television and undoubtedly this had a lasting effect on his artwork. The dismaying realities of the AIDS epidemic, and Haring’s subsequent diagnosis in 1988, are depicted in this post-apocalyptic scene as acts of total violence and devastation, likened to the wars that Haring witnessed on TV in his youth.

As with Apocalypse 1, Haring uses collage to reproduce and duplicate Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Haring undermines the cerebral nature of fine art through defacement and duplication. In this print the Mona Lisa has been cut up and vandalised by black felt lines. As such, her beauty is wholly perverted. Just as his good friend Jean-Michel Basquiat had done before him, Haring used his unique graffiti style to erode boundaries between the public and the world of high art.

  • 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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