Growing 5
Growing 5
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£19,000-£28,000
$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator
$35,000-$50,000 Value Indicator
¥180,000-¥260,000 Value Indicator
€23,000-€35,000 Value Indicator
$190,000-$280,000 Value Indicator
¥3,710,000-¥5,460,000 Value Indicator
$25,000-$35,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 100
Year: 1988
Size: H 72cm x W 98cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2023 | Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers - United States | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| March 2023 | SBI Art Auction - Japan | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| March 2020 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| March 2012 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| October 2009 | Christie's New York - United States | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| April 2009 | Sotheby's London - United Kingdom | Growing 5 - Signed Print | |||
| April 2006 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Growing 5 - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print from 1988 is a limited edition of 100 from Keith Haring’s Growing series. Striking in its use of bright colour and bold shapes, Growing 5 shows an unusual arrangement of figures. Much like other works in the series, Growing 5 is symmetrical in composition, showing two central figures with their arms outstretched and a figure on either side with their bodies bent over inwards, hiding their heads.
A sense of pattern is created by Haring in this print through his use of angular lines and flattened picture plane. Growing 5 makes clear the way in which Haring’s work appeals to both children and adults alike, using a limited colour palette of four vivid colours – red, blue, yellow and green – and simplified shapes that interlock with one another. Haring’s figures in this print are conjoined and flow into one another so as to emphasise a sense of community and the power of working together.
Haring’s use of symmetry along a vertical central axis and abundance of form marks a clear affinity with Australian Aboriginal and Aztec art. Across the image Haring uses concentric circles, curving, organic lines, figures and zig zags, to create an abstract pictorial system that moves and flows with the viewer’s eye. Indeed, Haring’s focus on pattern makes this work distinctly ‘primitive’, much like that of the European Modernists like Klee and Matisse.
