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Chocolate Buddha 5 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

Chocolate Buddha 5
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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56 x 71cm, Edition of 90, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph
Edition size: 90
Year: 1989
Size: H 56cm x W 71cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: September 2022
Value Trend:
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Auction Results

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Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
September 2022
Bonhams Los Angeles
United States
£10,260
£12,070
£15,389
October 2018
Phillips New York
United States
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The value of Keith Haring's Chocolate Buddha 5 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £10,000 to £15,000. This lithograph print from 1989 has shown consistent value growth, with an impressive average annual growth rate of 17%. This is a rare artwork with an auction history of two sales since its entry to the market on 16th October 2018. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

Much like Haring’s Growing series, Chocolate Buddha 5 shows a number of figures in a complex interconnected system, to underline the idea that working together and forming community can be more powerful than working alone. Haring’s use of fluid, organic shapes against the gestural blue lines across the image create a print that is bursting with energy and vigour.

Chocolate Buddha 5 is typical of Haring’s later works that continued to use simplified forms but in far more complex and abstract compositions. There is a level of symmetry used in this print across the vertical axis that allows the viewer’s eye to fluidly follow the multitude of forms across the image surface. In this focus on pattern over realism with his use of fluid and gestural line, Haring creates a rhythmic composition that seemingly moves on the canvas.

  • 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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