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Fertility 1 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1983 - MyArtBroker

Fertility 1
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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107 x 126cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 100

Year: 1983

Size: H 107cm x W 126cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: July 2022

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
July 2022
SBI Art Auction
Japan
£42,922
£50,497
£58,072
March 2022
Sotheby's New York
United States
September 2020
Christie's London
United Kingdom
March 2019
Christie's London
United Kingdom
April 2017
Sotheby's New York
United States
March 2017
Christie's New York
United States
September 2016
Christie's London
United Kingdom
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The value of Keith Haring’s Fertility 1 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £40,000 and £60,000. This screenprint has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 6%. This is a popular work with an auction history of 11 total sales since its entry to the market in September 2000. In the last 12 months, there have been 3 sales, with hammer prices ranging from £30,000 in September 2020 to £50,497 in July 2022. The average return to the seller over the past five years is £31,917. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

Haring was fascinated with babies and pregnant women and used these motifs throughout his work to represent “the purest and most positive experience of human existence” and as a symbol of hope for the future. Through the use of jarring neon colours and agitated moving figures, Haring injects tension and anxiety to this otherwise positive subject matter. Furthermore, Haring uses dotted lines and circles in this series to allude to the lesions of people with HIV/AIDS and the threat this poses to pregnant women.

Haring’s Fertility Suite series is exemplary of the way in which he used a positive visual language to speak out against hard hitting subjects such as racism, homophobia, the apartheid in South Africa and HIV/AIDS. Fertility 1 alludes to the high prevalence of HIV infection among pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s, notably the transmission of the virus from mother to child.

  • 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