The Valley Page 11
The Valley Page 11
Signed Print
Keith Haring
£2,400-£3,550
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36 x 30cm, Edition of 80, Etching
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Meaning & Analysis
This signed etching from 1989 is a limited edition of 80 from Keith Haring’s The Valley series. The Valley Page 11 shows an image of a large man listening to an outside world beyond that of the valley, with a crowd of figures cheering in the foreground. Despite the frenzied subject matter and energy of the image, Haring maintains a simplicity in line that he is renowned for, depicting this image exclusively in black and white.
The Valley series is one of many by Haring that when considered in full, tells an unusual story as the sequence of images, combined with text, unfold. Comparable to his Apocalypse series (1988) completed one year earlier, Haring’s images are chaotic and are born from a collaboration with the Beat Era poet and novelist William S. Burroughs, whose text-based ‘cut-up’ method formed the basis of Haring’s pictographic style.
Haring’s later works such as The Valley Page 11 have been compared within art historical narratives to the chaotic storytelling of Hieronymus Bosch and the fierce liveliness of his friend and contemporary Jean-Michael Basquiat. This particular series is representative of a stylistic shift exemplified in his Cranbrook Mural (1987) that introduced intentional blotches, drips and themes around death and the end of times.