The Valley Page 11
The Valley Page 11
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£2,850-£4,300Value Indicator
$6,000-$9,000 Value Indicator
$5,500-$8,000 Value Indicator
¥27,000-¥40,000 Value Indicator
€3,300-€4,950 Value Indicator
$30,000-$45,000 Value Indicator
¥570,000-¥860,000 Value Indicator
$3,850-$6,000 Value Indicator
There aren't enough data points on this work for a comprehensive result. Please speak to a specialist by making an enquiry.
36 x 30cm, Edition of 80, Etching
Medium: Etching
Edition size: 80
Year: 1989
Size: H 36cm x W 30cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
Last Auction: October 2023
Value Trend:
AAGR (5 years) This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Auction Results
Track auction value trend
Meaning & Analysis
This signed etching from 1989 is a limited edition of 80 from Keith Haring’s The Valley series. The Valley Page 11 shows an image of a large man listening to an outside world beyond that of the valley, with a crowd of figures cheering in the foreground. Despite the frenzied subject matter and energy of the image, Haring maintains a simplicity in line that he is renowned for, depicting this image exclusively in black and white.
The Valley series is one of many by Haring that when considered in full, tells an unusual story as the sequence of images, combined with text, unfold. Comparable to his Apocalypse series (1988) completed one year earlier, Haring’s images are chaotic and are born from a collaboration with the Beat Era poet and novelist William S. Burroughs, whose text-based ‘cut-up’ method formed the basis of Haring’s pictographic style.
Haring’s later works such as The Valley Page 11 have been compared within art historical narratives to the chaotic storytelling of Hieronymus Bosch and the fierce liveliness of his friend and contemporary Jean-Michael Basquiat. This particular series is representative of a stylistic shift exemplified in his Cranbrook Mural (1987) that introduced intentional blotches, drips and themes around death and the end of times.
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
