Fertility 2
Fertility 2
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£45,000-£70,000 VALUE (EST.)
$80,000-$130,000 VALUE (EST.)
$80,000-$120,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥400,000-¥620,000 VALUE (EST.)
€50,000-€80,000 VALUE (EST.)
$440,000-$680,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥7,850,000-¥12,210,000 VALUE (EST.)
$60,000-$90,000 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Screenprint, 1983
Signed Print Edition of 100
H 107cm x W 126cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2022 | Bonhams New Bond Street - United Kingdom | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| March 2022 | Sotheby's New York - United States | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| December 2021 | A.N. Abell Auction Company - United States | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| December 2020 | Koller Zurich - Switzerland | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| March 2019 | Christie's London - United Kingdom | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| October 2018 | Christie's New York - United States | Fertility 2 - Signed Print | |||
| April 2017 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions - Germany | Fertility 2 - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print from 1983 is a limited edition of 100 from Keith Haring’s Fertility Suite series. As the second work in the suite, Fertility 2 features a neon, extraterrestrial landscape that conveys themes surrounding life, death and illness. Using bright neon colours of pink, red, green, orange and yellow to form a landscape against a black backdrop, Fertility 2 has a futuristic character that is charged with tension.
The print’s central subject is a brightly coloured and spotted ancient Egyptian pyramid, a common motif in Haring’s work that symbolised both antiquity and eternity. Haring’s allusion to the mysteries of ancient civilisation are juxtaposed with the imagination of extraterrestrial civilisation through the depiction of UFOs that have come to represent positive energy and empowerment to those who are situated outside of accepted social norms.
Haring’s use of dashes, dots and large spots are used to allude to the lesions of people who live with HIV/AIDS. This landscape is seemingly overwhelmed by the disease and threatens the pregnant figure in the bottom left hand corner, whilst the unaffected UFOs attack the sacred monument in the centre. Haring was a prominent HIV/AIDS activist and Fertility 2 represents the saving of children and humanity from the horrors of illness and inactive leadership.
