The Blueprint Drawings 1
The Blueprint Drawings 1
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£21,000-£30,000 VALUE (EST.)
$40,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)
$35,000-$50,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥190,000-¥270,000 VALUE (EST.)
€24,000-€35,000 VALUE (EST.)
$200,000-$290,000 VALUE (EST.)
¥3,850,000-¥5,490,000 VALUE (EST.)
$26,000-$35,000 VALUE (EST.)
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Screenprint, 1990
Signed Print Edition of 33
H 108cm x W 192cm
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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 New York - United States | 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.’
