Keith Haring: ICONS

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World-famous US-American artist of Pop Art with steady increase in value

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Keith Haring Icons Portfolio 5 Silkscreens

Flying Devil silkscreen from Keith Haring’s ICONS portfolio (1990), a limited edition series of five, highly sought by contemporary art collectors.

Three Eyes silkscreen from Keith Haring’s ICONS portfolio (1990), a limited edition series of five, highly sought by contemporary art collectors.

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You can currently purchase the complete graphic portfolio “Icons” by Keith Haring from 1990 in very good condition. The five-part series of silkscreens with embossed printing was printed in a limited edition of 250 copies.

The portfolio was published by Tony Shafrazi Editions in New York and also bears the publisher's dry stamp in the lower left corner. Haring uses his characteristic “energy lines” to present his most famous figures in this series. With broad contour lines that are embossed to create a shiny black sheen, he outlines, for example, the crawling baby, a symbol of joie de vivre and innocence, or the barking dog, an accuser against the injustices of the world.

Keith Haring's characteristic visual language has made him world-famous and is also a pleasure to look at in these large prints. His images are part of the visual memory of industrialized nations and are now printed on T-shirts, mugs etc. - but only very, very few have an ORIGINAL by Haring on their wall.

The prints bear the stamped certificate of authenticity on the back, signed by the executor of the estate, Julia Gruen. The graphic series was conceived by Haring himself during his lifetime. However, production could only be completed after his death, which is why all the prints in the entire edition are signed by the artist estate, although this does not detract from the value of this portfolio.

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Crawling Baby silkscreen from Keith Haring’s ICONS portfolio (1990), a limited edition series of five, highly sought by contemporary art collectors.

Barking Dog silkscreen from Keith Haring’s ICONS portfolio (1990), a limited edition series of five, highly sought by contemporary art collectors.

Angel silkscreen from Keith Haring’s ICONS portfolio (1990), a limited edition series of five, highly sought by contemporary art collectors.

Whatever he presented tended to spread quickly, to multiply, to be applied universally. Like the pictograms and signets in the merchandise circus, like Mickey Mouse or the spinach-eating Popeye, Haring's 'trademarks' have the same effect. He calls them 'icons': the barking dog in the halo, the crawling baby, the yellow angel, the red superman with the dragon wings. Two graphic series are dedicated to these 'icons', one brightly colored and one colorless ('White Icons'). In 1990, shortly before his death, Haring chose the techniques of screen printing and embossing, giving them in one case the rich sheen of enamel signs and in the other the mysterious aura of devotional images before which one lowers one's eyes.

Werner Jehle, 1997

Catalog raisonné: Littmann, K. (1997). Keith Haring - Editions on paper 1982-1990. Stuttgart: Cantz. S. 170-171

Increase in value

Due to Keith Haring's immense popularity, his prices have consistently trended upward for years. His artworks show a significant increase in value; according to Artprice, the value of Haring's works surged by an impressive 116.8% in 2024.

Keith Haring was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1958 and died in New York City in 1990.

In 1976, Haring studied commercial art for two semesters at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh. In 1978, he had his first solo exhibition at the Pittsburgh Arts and Crafts Center. In the same year, he moved to New York and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts. Haring came into increasing contact with graffiti writing, which had a significant influence on his work. He painted covered billboards in the New York subway and gained his first public attention through the resulting photographs by Tseng Kwong Chi.

In October 1982, Haring's first solo exhibition took place at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. This enabled him to make his international breakthrough: he received invitations to Rotterdam and Amsterdam and took part in Documenta 7 in Kassel. In 1983, he took part in the Whitney Biennial and the São Paulo Biennial. Haring met Andy Warhol in the same year and became friends with him. He painted an Andy Mouse for Warhol, which is said to embody a mixture of Andy Warhol and Mickey Mouse. He began painting on canvas in 1985, having previously painted either on paper or vinyl tarpaulins and house walls. The artist's works are represented in numerous renowned collections in Europe, America and Australia, among others. There are also murals in various cities.

Sources: This text is based on the article Keith Haring from the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. A list of authors is available on Wikipedia.

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