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Flowers II - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1990 - MyArtBroker

Flowers II
Signed Print

Keith Haring

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100 x 130cm, Edition of 100, Screenprint

Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 100
Year: 1990
Size: H 100cm x W 130cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: April 2016
Value Trend:
16% AAGR

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Auction House
Location
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Buyer Paid
April 2016
Sotheby's London
United Kingdom
$8,500
$10,000
$12,500
May 2009
Bonhams San Francisco
United States
May 2008
Sotheby's New York
United States
September 2005
Christie's New York
United States
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The value of Keith Haring’s Flowers II (signed) is estimated to be worth between £17,000 and £26,000. This screenprint, created in 1990, has been sold 4 times at auction since its initial sale on 29th September 2005. The current average_annual_growth_rate is 4%. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 100.

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Meaning & Analysis

The Flowers series is an example of Haring’s expression of his own AIDS diagnosis and bodily suffering. Acknowledging the legacy of the Abstract Expressionists, Haring creates gestural strokes and ‘accidental’ drip lines to produce an emotionally charged image that relates to his feelings around his diagnosis. The flower figures that Haring carefully chooses as his subject matter throughout the print series, are deliberately ambiguous in their phallic nature and in their abstractness, this series if markedly different from his explicitly activist works such as Fight AIDS Worldwide (1990).

In this print the flower-like shapes are used as symbols of nature’s ephemerality and the fleeting impermanence of human life. In rendering the subjects to look phallic, Haring makes clear the stigma experienced by homosexual men during the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the way in which their sexuality was weaponised in relation to death and the fragility of life.

  • 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