Untitled 1987 (complete set)
Untitled 1987 (complete set)
Signed Print
Keith Haring
30 x 21cm, Edition of 100, Lithograph, 1987
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Meaning & Analysis
Untitled 1987 (complete set) is a group of four lithographs by Keith Haring, published in 1987 in a signed edition of 100. Printed in red, yellow and blue with heavy black outlines, the compact sheets show a figure whose arms loop through its own head, a figure on a television screen, a body carried overhead by a crowd, and a figure marked with an X. They form the Untitled 1987 collection.
These four small prints distill Haring's visual language to its most basic elements. Each is built from the three primary colours and a thick black contour, with no shading and little texture beyond the dotted ground of the first sheet. The modest scale and hand-drawn line give them the directness of a sketchbook page.
Despite their simplicity, the images carry concerns that ran through Haring's work in the late 1980s. A figure on a television screen covers its eyes, a reminder of his scepticism towards mass media and its influence. The blue figure held aloft by a crowd recalls the communal energy of his murals and Pop Shop imagery, while the X on the body in the fourth sheet, a mark Haring often used to show a figure as harmed or targeted, sits beside a yellow figure who appears to recoil. The arms of the first figure, passing through its own head, turn a familiar gesture into a knot, a device he returned to repeatedly.
