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The Story Of Red And Blue 18 - Signed Print by Keith Haring 1989 - MyArtBroker

The Story Of Red And Blue 18
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£2,950-£4,450Value Indicator

$6,000-$9,000 Value Indicator

$5,500-$8,500 Value Indicator

¥29,000-¥45,000 Value Indicator

€3,400-€5,000 Value Indicator

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56 x 42cm, Edition of 90, Lithograph

Medium: Lithograph

Edition size: 90

Year: 1989

Size: H 56cm x W 42cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

Last Auction: April 2024

Value Trend:

7% AAGR

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Auction Results

Auction Date
Auction House
Location
Return to Seller
Hammer Price
Buyer Paid
April 2024
Wright
United States
$3,000
$3,500
$4,400
December 2017
Forum Auctions London
United Kingdom
June 2014
Karl & Faber
Germany
July 2013
Christie's New York
United States
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The value of Keith Haring’s The Story Of Red And Blue 18 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £2,950 and £4,450. This lithograph print, created in 1989, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 7%. This is a rare artwork, with an auction history of four total sales since its entry to the market in July 2013. The hammer price over the past five years has ranged from £2,475 in November 2017 to £4,006 in August 2019. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 90.

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Meaning & Analysis

Representative of Haring’s desire to create a visual language that appealed to both children and adults alike, the series is formed of a variety of simplified images reminiscent of children’s fictional characters. Throughout the series Haring limits his colour palette to bright red and blue and renders each image in his distinctive linear style with black rounded lines.

The Story Of Red And Blue 18 shows a comical image of a human-like rabbit, kneeling on the ground and waving. It’s face is outlined in thick, blue brushstrokes and the character has a bright red nose. Depicted through the use of simplistic shapes and bright, block colour, this print is a playful and appealing image that is reminiscent of a children’s storybook illustration.

Across the first half of the series, each print alternates in colour between red and blue and by this point in 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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