Keith Haring — Other Prints For Sale

Keith Haring's prints are among the most accessible yet significant examples of late twentieth-century Pop art, distilling complex social commentary into an instantly recognisable visual language. Silence = Death (1989) adapts the pink-triangle poster created for the Silence = Death Project, a New York collective formed in response to the AIDS crisis; the symbol itself was appropriated from Nazi Germany, where an inverted pink triangle had been forcibly used to mark gay men in concentration camps, and was later reclaimed as an emblem of activist defiance when the project handed the image's rights to ACT UP. Statue of Liberty (1986), by contrast, is a more celebratory screenprint, published in an edition of 100 by Rupert Jasen Smith in New York, depicting Lady Liberty rendered in Haring's bold outline style above a crowd of cheering figures — an image that reflects his ongoing engagement with American iconography and public symbolism.

Alongside these overtly political and civic subjects, prints such as Dog and Best Buddies carry the exuberant line and kinetic energy that made Haring's imagery iconic well beyond the gallery context, drawing on the same graphic vocabulary he first developed in his subway chalk drawings. Ranging from screenprints to lithographs, each medium was chosen to maximise the impact of Haring's bold contours and vibrant colour, with many of these works produced in the final years of his life. Together, they synthesise love, activism, mortality and joy into a body of print work that remains among the most widely recognised of any artist of his generation. Each work at Guy Hepner is presented with full authentication.