Name: The Story Of Red And Blue 12
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 4.9 (181 reviews)

The Story Of Red And Blue 12
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£3,900-£5,500 VALUE (EST.)

$7,000-$10,000 VALUE (EST.)

$6,500-$9,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥35,000-¥45,000 VALUE (EST.)

€4,450-€6,500 VALUE (EST.)

$35,000-$50,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥630,000-¥880,000 VALUE (EST.)

$4,750-$6,500 VALUE (EST.)

6% AAGR

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January 2018

Phillips London - United Kingdom

The Story Of Red And Blue 12 - Signed Print

December 2015

Artcurial - France

The Story Of Red And Blue 12 - Signed Print

June 2014

Karl & Faber - Germany

The Story Of Red And Blue 12 - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

This signed colour lithograph from 1989 is a limited edition of 90 from Keith Haring’s The Story Of Red And Blue series.

Representative of Haring’s desire to create a visual language that appealed to both children and adults alike, the series is formed of a variety of simplified images reminiscent of children’s fictional characters. Throughout the series Haring limits his colour palette to bright red and blue and renders each image in his distinctive linear style with black rounded lines.

The Story Of Red And Blue 12 features a line drawing of a sunflower and a tall, bright blue figure embracing one another. This is a playful and appealing image that is reminiscent of traditional children’s story book illustrations, however throughout the series there seems not to be any cohesive storyline.

Across the first half of the series, each print alternates in colour between red and blue and by the end of the series the two colours appear together in the prints. In each print Haring uses simplified and generic pictograms to produce the effect of a children’s story book without a sensical storyline, where instead the story seems to focus abstractly on the colours red and blue.