The Blueprint Drawings 1
The Blueprint Drawings 1
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£22,000-£35,000
$40,000-$70,000 Value Indicator
$40,000-$60,000 Value Indicator
¥210,000-¥330,000 Value Indicator
€26,000-€40,000 Value Indicator
$220,000-$350,000 Value Indicator
¥4,510,000-¥7,180,000 Value Indicator
$29,000-$45,000 Value Indicator
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Medium: Screenprint
Edition size: 33
Year: 1990
Size: H 108cm x W 192cm
Signed: Yes
Format: Signed Print
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Auction Results
| Auction Date | Auction House | Artwork | Hammer Price | Return to Seller | Buyer Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2017 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions - Germany | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| June 2016 | Christie's New York - United States | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| June 2016 | Christie's Amsterdam - Netherlands | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| November 2015 | Sotheby's New York - United States | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| September 2015 | Christie's New York - United States | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| December 2013 | Hampel Fine Art Auctions - Germany | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print | |||
| October 2011 | Sotheby's New York - United States | The Blueprint Drawings 1 - Signed Print |
Meaning & Analysis
This signed screen print form 1990 is a limited edition of 33 from Keith Haring’s The Blueprint Drawings series. Regarded as the last cohesive project of the artist's career, The Blueprint Drawings 1 shows a series of frames rendered in Haring’s iconic linear style, exclusively black rounded lines against a white backdrop, whereby scenes of genderless figures, dogs and UFOs play out as a vision of chaos. Haring makes explicit references to sex, religion, death and AIDS as a means to confront the viewer with difficult issues of the time.
Originally produced as unique works on paper with Sumi ink, Haring displayed these works in a one-week exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 where not a single drawing was sold. However, he did find success in the sale of several blueprint copies of the original drawings and so revisited the subject in 1990, a month before his tragic death creating a portfolio of 17 screen prints of the original images.
Speaking of the difference between his subways drawings and his studio prints Haring has said: ‘I do use a little moral discretion between what I put on the street and what I put on the subway. The things in the studio obviously have more sex. But I think it’s inevitable that the subway drawings have it too because it’s part of my life and part of the rest of the body of work.’
