Name: The Valley Page 8
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 5 (236 reviews)

Track auction value trend

The value of Keith Haring’s The Valley Page 8, an etching from 1989, is estimated to be worth between £1,550 and £2,350. This work has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 3%. This signed artwork has an auction history of three total sales since its entry to the market on 13th April 2016. In the past five years, the hammer price has ranged from £1,571 in January 2024 to £1,999 in April 2022. The average return to the seller over this period has been £1,517. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 80.

Meaning & Analysis

This signed etching from 1989 is a limited edition of 80 from Keith Haring’s The Valley series. The Valley Page 8 shows a naked man clambering up an uneven terrain, his arms and legs contorted into uncomfortable positions. This print is rendered in fine black line that marks a departure from much of Haring’s earlier works.

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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. Haring’s later works such as The Valley Page 8 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. 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.

The ominous texts by William S. Burroughs are copied by hand on sixteen sheets of tracing paper, which were photo-etched onto copper plates and printed in red ink. This print tells the story of a people called Corners, who perform for the rest of the Valley people as they enjoy a feast.