International Youth Year
International Youth Year
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£7,000-£10,000 VALUE (EST.)
$13,000-$19,000 VALUE (EST.)
$11,500-$17,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥60,000-¥90,000 VALUE (EST.)
€8,000-€11,500 VALUE (EST.)
$70,000-$100,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥1,220,000-¥1,740,000 VALUE (EST.)
$8,500-$12,500 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Lithograph, 1985
Signed Print Edition of 1000
H 28cm x W 22cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Bonhams Los Angeles - United States | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| March 2023 | Bruun Rasmussen - Online - Denmark | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| January 2023 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| October 2022 | Wright - United States | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| September 2022 | Bonhams Los Angeles - United States | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| September 2022 | Wright - United States | International Youth Year - Signed Print | |||
| June 2022 | Wright - United States | International Youth Year - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed lithograph from 1985 is a limited edition of 1000 by Keith Haring. International Youth Year was created to celebrate International Youth Year as proclaimed by the United Nations in the same year. The print was originally published by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in New York and shows a bright blue stick figure dancing underneath a pink sun, set against a glowing yellow backdrop and red landscape.
International Youth Year was an initiative by the UN that held activities all over the world, focusing attention on issues concerning and relating to young people everywhere. It is particularly apt that Haring was chosen to design this poster due to his vivacious and playful style that appealed to young people, exclusively using bold outlines, simplified shapes and bright, flattened colours.
Haring was tireless in his work with children of all ages and backgrounds, collaborating on murals with young people in America’s poorest inner cities and holding numerous drawing workshops. Upholding a world view that rendered racial, cultural and sexual differences immaterial, Haring admired children for their sense of innocence claiming, ‘Children are colour-blind and still free of all the complications, greed and hatred that will slowly be instilled in them.’ Haring’s ageless and genderless figures, as seen in International Youth Year are indicative of this worldview that the artist promoted.
