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The Story Of Red And Blue 12 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

The Story Of Red And Blue 12
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£2,700-£4,050Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

$5,000-$7,500 Value Indicator

¥26,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator

€3,150-€4,750 Value Indicator

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¥530,000-¥790,000 Value Indicator

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51 x 23cm, Edition of 90, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 90

Year: 1989

Size: H 51cm x W 23cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: April 2024

Value Trend:

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Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2024
Rago
United States
$2,400
$2,800
$3,550
October 2023
Phillips New York
United States
January 2018
Phillips London
United Kingdom
December 2015
Artcurial
France
June 2014
Karl & Faber
Germany
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The value of Keith Haring’s The Story Of Red And Blue 12, a signed lithograph print from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £2,700 and £4,050. There have been five sales at auction since its initial sale in June 2014. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £2,213 in April 2024 to £3,137 in October 2023. The average annual growth rate of this artwork is 2%. This work is part of a limited edition of 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

The Story Of Red And Blue 12 features a line drawing of a sunflower and a tall, bright blue figure embracing one another. This is a playful and appealing image that is reminiscent of traditional children’s story book illustrations, however throughout the series there seems not to be any cohesive storyline.

Across the first half of the series, each print alternates in colour between red and blue and by the end of the series the two colours appear together in the prints. In each print Haring uses simplified and generic pictograms to produce the effect of a children’s story book without a sensical storyline, where instead the story seems to focus abstractly on the colours red and blue.

  • 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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