Name: The Story Of Red And Blue 7
Brand: Keith Haring
Rating: 4.9 (174 reviews)

The Story Of Red And Blue 7
Signed Print

Keith Haring

£1,350-£1,950 VALUE (EST.)

$2,350-$3,400 VALUE (EST.)

$2,200-$3,200 VALUE (EST.)

¥11,000-¥16,000 VALUE (EST.)

€1,550-€2,200 VALUE (EST.)

$13,000-$19,000 VALUE (EST.)

¥220,000-¥310,000 VALUE (EST.)

$1,650-$2,400 VALUE (EST.)

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March 2017

Bonhams Knightsbridge - United Kingdom

The Story Of Red And Blue 7 - Signed Print

June 2014

Karl & Faber - Germany

The Story Of Red And Blue 7 - Signed Print

Meaning & Analysis

Taking the format of a children’s story book, The Story Of Red And Blue 7 is a print from Keith Haring’s The Story Of Red And Blue series from 1989. This signed colour lithograph is a limited edition of 90.

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 7 features a line drawing of a nude Geisha holding a large red fan and a strip of Japanese calligraphy. 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.