1987
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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$40,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.5 in W 8.25 in
Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78), Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Keith Haring (1958-1990) (after) Title: Lucky Strike (Littmann P. 78) Year: 1987 Medium: Silkscreen on Arches cotton rag paper Inscription: Hand signed and numbered, 70/80, a...
Screen
$61,000
H 33 in W 40.6 in
Keith Haring Pop Shop II Screen Print, 1988, New Wave Style
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop II (Littmann 97) is the third print in the artist's Pop Shop II portfolio of 1988. This series of prints was a continuation on the "Pop Shop" portfolios which e...
Screen
Pop Shop I (D)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring in 1987, Pop Shop I (Plate D) is an original color screenprint measuring 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm), unframed. The artwork is han...
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Pop Shop II (D)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
From the second Pop Shop suite of four prints created by Keith Haring in 1988, Pop Shop II (Plate D) is a fun and highly collectible color screenprint measuring 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 3...
Screen
$199,500
H 40.25 in W 30 in
Growing (1), Screen Print by Keith Haring, Pop Art, Signed, 21/100, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board. Hand signed, dated and numbered by Keith Haring. Image size 38.75 x 28.5 inches. Edition 21/100 (there were also 15 artist's proofs). P...
Paper, Screen
$280Sale Price|20% Off
H 38.25 in W 38.25 in D 0.1 in
Andy Mouse Screen Print by Keith Haring, Pop Art, Circa 1986, Unframed
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Andy Mouse is a significant work by Keith Haring, created in 1986 as both a homage to Andy Warhol and a bold commentary on consumer culture. Blending Warhol’s iconic image with Micke...
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Pop Shop I Screen Print, Keith Haring, 1987, Signed, 1980s
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop I (Littmann PP. 83), is the fourth and final print in the artist’s Pop Shop I portfolio of 1987. This silkscreen depicts two figures, one purple figure holding ...
Screen
$121,250
H 40 in W 30 in
Growing 1 Screen Print by Keith Haring, 1980s, New Wave Style, Signed
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
One of the most prolific pop and graffiti artists of all time, Haring is a symbol of creativity, love and joy in the face of hardship. Starting as a guerrilla artist in the subways o...
Screen
$240,000
H 43.25 in W 35.75 in D 2 in
Untitled, from Three Lithographs by Keith Haring, Signed, Edition 59/80, 1985
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in black and red, on BFK Rives paper. Hand signed and dated lower right by Keith Haring. Hand numbered 59/80 lower right (there were also twenty artist's proofs). Sheet...
Paper, Lithograph
$280Sale Price|20% Off
H 37 in W 21 in D 0.1 in
Keith Haring 'Future Primeval' 1990 Pop Art Vintage
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original exhibition poster created for Keith Haring’s landmark show Future Primeval – Drawings, Paintings, and Artifacts, presented at the Queens Museum and University Galleries in 1...
Screen
Keith Haring Lucky Strike poster 1987
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vintage original Keith Haring Lucky Strike Screen-print, 1987 "The advertising posters for Lucky Strike cigarettes reflect the popular Montreux posters from 1983. According to the i...
Screen
Keith Haring poster 1988 (Keith Haring City Kids)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring New York 1988: Rare vintage 1988 benefit poster illustrated by Keith Haring for the Helping NY Work coalition. Event info as follows: 'THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENTS ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Drawings poster 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi gallery 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1982: The much historic early Keith Haring exhibition poster, illustrated by Haring on the occasion of: 'Keith Haring Drawings' Oct. 9 - Nov. 13 - ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Yoko Ono 1987 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Yoko Ono 1987: Rare 1980s Keith Haring illustrated announcement for “Dance Plus” - a 1987 week long performance hosted by Keith Haring, Tseng Kwon Chi, Yoko Ono, Judith ...
Offset
Keith Haring Montreux Jazz poster 1983
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Poster for Montreux Jazz Festival 1983. Makes for vibrant, standout original Haring art without breaking the bank. Serigraph printed in colors. 1984. 27 x 39 inches (7...
Lithograph
Keith Haring Dance on the Lower East Side (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Dance on the Lower East Side: Fold-out invitation designed & illustrated by Haring for a opening night benefit party at The Underground, New York, NY 1983; in conjunctio...
Offset
