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Bad Boys 1 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1986 - MyArtBroker

Bad Boys 1
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£3,950-£6,000Value Indicator

$8,000-$12,500 Value Indicator

$7,500-$11,000 Value Indicator

¥40,000-¥60,000 Value Indicator

€4,650-€7,000 Value Indicator

$40,000-$60,000 Value Indicator

¥770,000-¥1,170,000 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,000 Value Indicator

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51 x 66cm, Edition of 30, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 30

Year: 1986

Size: H 51cm x W 66cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: December 2024

Value Trend:

7% AAGR

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Auction Results

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Location
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Hammer Price
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December 2024
Wright
United States
N/A
N/A
N/A
March 2020
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
December 1992
Christie's Amsterdam
Netherlands
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The value of Keith Haring's Bad Boys 1 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,950 and £6,000. This screenprint, created in 1986, has shown consistent value growth since its first sale on 24th March 2020. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £2,994, across one sale. The hammer price over the past five years has shown an average annual growth rate of 3%. This work is rare, with an auction history of two total sales. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 30.

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Meaning & Analysis

Bad Boys 1 shows three figures depicted in an abstract visual language of frenzied black lines. Reminiscent of the bold lines of Pre-Columbian art – especially those of Nazca lines – and aboriginal art, this work is representative of Haring’s debt to non-western artistic traditions. Haring conveys a unique sense of energy and optimism in this print through his use of freehand drawing methods that fill the interior of the figures’ bodies.

Haring’s Bad Boys series reflects the artist’s advocacy for LGBT+ rights against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. In the later stage of his artistic career, themes around sex and HIV/AIDS dominated his work, just as it dominated Haring’s personal life after his own AIDS diagnosis in 1988. Using sexually explicit subject matter and unambiguous phallic forms throughout the series as a whole, Bad Boys 1 makes clear Haring’s celebration of his sexuality.