1990
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
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring in 1985 as an original screenprint in colors, Untitled, 1985 is hand-signed, dated and numbered in pencil, measuring 23 ½ x 31 ½ in. (60 x 80 cm), unframed, f...
Screen
Untitled
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring as a color lithograph on BFK Rives paper, Untitled, 1986 is hand-signed, dated, and numbered in pencil. Measuring 24 x 32 in. (61 x 81 cm.), unframed, this pr...
Lithograph
Growing I
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
An iconic and highly collectible screenprint, Growing I, part of a five-print portfolio created by Keith Haring in 1988, the print is hand-signed in pencil, dated and numbered, measu...
Screen
Apocalypse 2
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 2 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: 22 of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Hand-signed by artist, Signed, numbered, and dated in pencil. Published by George Mulder Fine Arts, New York. Catalog Raisonne: Littmann, 98. Text: Willliam S. Burroughs Page 2 The planet is pulling loose from its moorings, careening into space, spilling cities and mountains and seas into the Void, spinning faster and faster as days and nights flash by like subway stations. Iron penis chimneys ejaculate blue sparks in a reek of ozone, tunnels crunch down teeth of concrete and steel, flattening cars like beer cans...
Screen
Apocalypse 6
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: Apocalypse 6 Size: 38 × 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm Medium: Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board Edition: WP (Working Proof) of 90 Year: 1988 Notes: Ha...
Screen
Free South Africa
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Keith Haring Free South Africa, complete set of 3 1985 Lithograph Sizes vary Edition of 60 Pencil signed, dated and numbered ...
Lithograph
Pop Shop I (B)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
An early and iconic screenprint by the artist created in 1987, Keith Haring’s, Pop Shop I (B) is an original color screenprint measuring 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x...
Screen
$59,500
H 13.5 in W 16.5 in
Pop Shop IV(1) Radiant Angel Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed Edition 154/200, 1989
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Image of "Radiant Angel", on wove paper. Hand signed, numbered & dated by the artist in pencil. Published by Martin Lawrence Editions Ltd., New York. Edition 154/200. Littmann...
Paper, Screen
The King
By Keith Haring
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Keith Haring Title: The King Size: 23 3/8 × 29 7/8 in 59.4 × 75.9 cm Medium: Lithograph Edition: of 50 Year: 1989 Notes: Hand Signed, Numbered & Dated in Pencil. Custom F...
Lithograph
Pop Shop IV (C)
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Keith Haring Pop Shop IV (C) 1989 Screenprint 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. Edition of 200 Pencil signed, dated, and numbered Condition: ...
Screen
Basquiat "Piano Lesson" Screenprint
By (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Basquiat, Jean Michel Title: Piano Lesson Series: Superhero Portfolio Date: 1982-1987/2022 Medium: Screenprint Unframed Dimensions: 40" x 40" Framed Dimensions: 46" x ...
Screen
Halim Flowers "Love is the Revolution 4"
By Halim Flowers
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Flowers, Halim Title: Love is the Revolution 4 Date: 2024 Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 24" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique A...
Oil, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "Sky" Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Sky Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14" x 12" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition: Unique...
Oil
Common Ground 02
By Bisco Smith
Located in Boston, MA
Title: Common Ground 02 Date: 2025 Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on canvas Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 24" Signature: Signed Edition: Unique The main writing in the piece rea...
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Tune Out/Tune in 03
By Bisco Smith
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Smith, Bisco Title: Tune Out/Tune In 03 Date: 2024 Medium: Acrylic and spray paint on paper Unframed Dimensions: 27.5" x 19.75" Framed Dimensions: 33.5" x 25.75" Signat...
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Hunt Slonem "High Fly" painting of butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: High Fly Date: 2023 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition...
Oil
