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Bad Boys 2 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1986 - MyArtBroker

Bad Boys 2
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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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: June 2022

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Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
June 2022
Wright
United States
$3,550
$4,200
$5,500
April 2022
Wright
United States
May 2020
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
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The value of Keith Haring’s Bad Boys 2 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £3,250 and £4,900. Over the past five years, the hammer price ranges from £3,342 in April 2022 to £3,404 in June 2022. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This work is rare to the market with an auction history of three total sales since its entry to the market in May 2020. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 30.

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Meaning & Analysis

Bad Boys 2 is a densely filled image of frenzied black lines, depicting the figure with free flowing lines that fill the interior of his torso. The technique is reminiscent of many of Haring’s works such as his Stones series (1989), that creates an abstract and complex visual language through a simplicity of line. Harking back to his subway drawings of the 1980s, this print is depicted exclusively in black and white, further emphasising Haring’s keen interest in maintaining an immediacy in his work even in this later stage of his artistic career.

The sexually explicit subject matter of Haring’s Bad Boys series is indicative of a turning point in the artist’s career, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic hit the LGBT+ community in 1980s New York. Haring himself was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988 and subsequently the subject dominated his work in the latter part of his career, before his tragic death in 1990.