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Fertility 3 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1983 - MyArtBroker

Fertility 3
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: May 2022

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
May 2022
Stockholms Auction House
Sweden
N/A
N/A
N/A
April 2021
Christie's New York
United States
June 2020
Uppsala Auktionskammare
Sweden
March 2019
Christie's London
United Kingdom
July 2017
Christie's New York
United States
November 2006
Sotheby's New York
United States
March 2005
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
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The value of Keith Haring's Fertility 3 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £40,000 to £60,000. This screenprint, created in 1983, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. This work has an auction history of eight total sales since its entry to the market in October 2001. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £27,484 in April 2021 to £44,177 in May 2022. The average return to the seller during this period was £30,455. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

Along with other works in the series, Fertility 3 shows Haring’s fascination with babies and pregnant women, using the pregnant figure as an oversized central subject that works as a symbol of sacredness and hope for the future. However, through the use of jarring neon colours and agitated moving figures, Haring injects tension and anxiety to the otherworldly image. Furthermore, Haring uses dotted lines and circles on the body of the central figure to allude to the lesions of people with HIV/AIDS and the threat this poses to pregnant women.

The Fertility series is an example of the way in which Haring used his uniquely positive visual language as a form of social activism during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This print raises awareness of the high prevalence of HIV infection amongst pregnant women in Sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s, notably the transmission of the virus from mother to child