Name: The Blueprint Drawings 7
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 4.9 (189 reviews)

The Blueprint Drawings 7
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£22,000-£35,000 VALUE (EST.)

$40,000-$70,000 VALUE (EST.)

$35,000-$60,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥190,000-¥310,000 VALUE (EST.)

€26,000-€40,000 VALUE (EST.)

$210,000-$340,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥3,840,000-¥6,100,000 VALUE (EST.)

$27,000-$45,000 VALUE (EST.)

25% AAGR (5YR)

This estimate blends recent public auction records with our own private sale data and network demand.

Auction Date

Auction House

Artwork

Hammer Price

Return to Seller

Buyer Paid

September 2015

Christie's New York - United States

The Blueprint Drawings 7 - Signed Print

April 2012

Sotheby's London - United Kingdom

The Blueprint Drawings 7 - Signed Print

October 2011

Christie's New York - United States

The Blueprint Drawings 7 - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Completed the year of the artist’s tragic death by AIDS in 1990, The Blueprint Drawings 7 is a signed screen print from Keith Haring’s The Blueprint Drawings series and is a limited edition of 33.

read more about The Blueprint Drawings

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.

Throughout the series Haring revisits recurring pictograms to communicate complex ideas through a simplistic visual language. In The Blueprint Drawings 7 Haring uses dots to convey the otherness of homosexuality and illness, specifically AIDS, and thus presents the dotted figure as infected. Furthermore, throughout Haring’s oeuvre the stick is a commonly used weapon, used as a means to activate figures, creatures and objects with power and strength.

The Blueprint Drawings 7 shows two anonymous figures rendered in black and white in Haring’s iconic linear style, notably the figure on the right is hanging from its hands and has dots across its body. The uninfected figure on the left is seen poking a stick through the dotted figure’s stomach to exaggerate the dotted figure’s otherness.