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Bayer Suite 4 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1982 - MyArtBroker

Bayer Suite 4
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£1,650-£2,500Value Indicator

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30 x 24cm, Edition of 70, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 70

Year: 1982

Size: H 30cm x W 24cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: November 2011

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November 2011
Cornette de Saint Cyr Paris
France
£840
£988
£1,285
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Keith Haring's Bayer Suite 4, a signed lithograph from 1982, is estimated to be worth between £1,650 and £2,500. This work has an auction history of one sale on 20th November 2011. There have been no sales in the last 12 months or the last five years. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 70.

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Meaning & Analysis

Commissioned in 1982 by Bayer AG on the occasion of the release of the heart medication ‘Sali-Adalat’, the prints in the Bayer Suite series are depicted in the artists' trademark figurative style, and recall the artist’s early subway drawings, where he spent his days drawing in white chalk on the empty advertising panels of the New York subway system.

The ‘People Ladder’ motif in Haring’s work has come to represent a tower of break dancers stacked on top of one another to convey a sense of joy and community in a way that reflected the artist’s love of hip hop emerging in New York City in the 1980s. Haring’s use of red action lines surrounding the figures work to create a sense of excitement in the print and also signifies the figures’ struggle to balance.

Haring’s use of lithography as a method of printing worked to maintain the crisp edges and opaque sections of colour that make up his signature style, due to lithography’s capacity to produce exceptional detail across hundreds of multiples.

  • 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