1988
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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Untitled from Pop Shop V Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 39/200, 1989
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the rever...
Screen, Paper
Untitled from Pop Shop I Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 1987, Edition 35/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Frame size appro...
Paper, Screen
Untitled from Pop Shop IV Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 1989, Edition 175/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the reverse. Artwork size 13.5 x 16...
Screen, Paper
Pop Shop II (1), Hand Signed Screen Print by Keith Haring, 1988, Edition 48/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered, and dated by Keith Haring. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Littmann p. ...
Screen, Paper
One Plate from Three Lithographs Suite, Hand Signed, Edition of 80, 1985
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
From the Three Lithographs Suite. Lithograph in black and red, on BFK Rives paper. Edition 25/80 (there were also 20 artist's proofs). Sheet size 31.875 x 39.5 inches. Image size...
Paper, Lithograph
Pop Shop Quad IV Screen Print, Hand Signed, Pop Art, 1989, Edition 67/75
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the reverse. Artwork size 27 x 33 i...
Paper, Screen
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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Pop Shop II Plate 3 By Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Pop Shop II Plate 3 By Keith Haring Keith Haring was a visionary American artist and social activist known for his iconic, colorful, and dynamic graffiti-inspired artwork that eme...
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Growing 2 Screen Print by Keith Haring, Abstract Expressionist, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Growing (Plate 2), is the second installment of the artist’s Growing portfolio of 1988. This silkscreen has a background of bright yellow and depicts around six teal fig...
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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...
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