Three Eyed Monster
Three Eyed Monster
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£11,500-£18,000 VALUE (EST.)
$22,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)
$19,000-$30,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥100,000-¥160,000 VALUE (EST.)
€13,500-€21,000 VALUE (EST.)
$110,000-$180,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥2,000,000-¥3,140,000 VALUE (EST.)
$14,500-$23,000 VALUE (EST.)
This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.
Screenprint, 1990
Signed Print Edition of 250
H 53cm x W 64cm
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2023 | Sotheby's Online - United Kingdom | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| September 2021 | Bonhams Los Angeles - United States | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| June 2021 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| September 2020 | Phillips London - United Kingdom | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| February 2019 | Wright - United States | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| October 2012 | Bonhams San Francisco - United States | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print | |||
| April 2008 | Doyle New York - United States | Three Eyed Monster - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print from 1990 is a limited edition of 250 from Keith Haring’s Icons series. Establishing a sinister presence within the series, Three Eyed Monster shows an eager and grinning face with three large eyes looking to the side.It is rendered in flat, saturated colours and thick outlines. Haring’s choice of colour and subject gives this print a garish and jarring quality that emphasises both the playful and grotesque in his work.
The Icons series works to bring together some of Haring’s most iconic symbols and the Three Eyed Monster is one that occurs repeatedly throughout his work. Used as a symbol for greed by Haring, this image uses light-hearted imagery and a cartoonish visual language to critique the proliferation of capitalism in 1980s New York. Haring used his art to oppose the negative effects of capitalism and mass consumerism, undoubtedly inspired by the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and his friend, Andy Warhol. As evidenced by his famous Pop Shop, Haring conflated high art with commercialism and so claimed to mirror the capitalist world that he lived in. This print shows Haring’s use of flat, artificial colours that mimic the mass-produced nature of the world he was critiquing.
Three Eyed Monster is uncompromising in its positive, comic tone. However, upon closer examination Haring’s subject carries menacing connotations about greed and hellishness. Adopting a system of expression inspired by Egyptian hieroglyphics, Haring’s syntax of signs create a universal language and a true public art charged with moral weight.
