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Apocalypse 5 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1988 - MyArtBroker

Apocalypse 5
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£6,500-£10,000Value Indicator

$13,500-$21,000 Value Indicator

$12,000-$19,000 Value Indicator

¥60,000-¥100,000 Value Indicator

€7,500-€11,500 Value Indicator

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¥1,290,000-¥1,990,000 Value Indicator

$9,000-$13,500 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: December 2024

Value Trend:

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
December 2024
Wright
United States
$5,500
$6,500
$8,000
December 2024
Sotheby's Paris
France
April 2024
Wright
United States
September 2023
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
March 2023
Sotheby's Online
United Kingdom
September 2021
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
June 2021
Germann Auctions
Switzerland
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The value of Keith Haring’s Apocalypse 5 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £6,500 and £10,000. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 10%. Over the past 12 months, the average selling price was £5,045, with a total of 2 sales. In the last five years, the hammer price has ranged from £4,969 in December 2024 to £8,826 in April 2024. Since its first sale in November 1998, this artwork has been sold 16 times at auction, providing an average annual growth rate of 10%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

Haring pushes Christian iconography to its extremes in this print, showing two serpent creatures attacking a phallic Christ figure. A collaged image of Christ forms the head of a phallus in this print that shows snake-like figures, symbolising sin, evil and Satan, attacking the Christ figure. Haring uses his trademark pop-graffiti style to contrast good and evil, as well as to bring ideas of religion and sexuality into the same realm.

Apocalypse 5 appropriates and reworks Christian iconography to reflect the chaos of contemporary life and the imagined horrors of the world’s end. By using religious symbols like the serpent and Christ, Haring gives this print a moralistic charge. To address those who have remained ambivalent to the horrors of contemporary events, most especially the AIDS epidemic, Haring consciously pushes religious imagery to its extremes. By placing the Christ figure in a hell-like scene, Haring invokes utter disdain and profanity to the viewer.

Throughout the Apocalypse series, Haring uses a pictographic style inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics and bright colours to communicate clear-cut moralistic messages. One of Haring’s most famous pictograms, the barking dog, appears in Apocalypse 5. First appearing in his subway drawings from the early 1980s, the barking dog is used to represent abuses of power by the government and oppressive regimes that demand obedience. This rings true in the context of Haring’s Apocalypse series that creates a pictographic social commentary on the American government’s silence and complicity in the deaths of many thousands of people due to AIDS.

  • 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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