Keith Haring’s Pop Shop 3 series was created in 1989. The series is the third of six Pop Shop series that Haring created in his lifetime. This one features images using the same five colors: grey, turquoise, yellow, red and black. The Pop Shop prints in this series feature many of the aspects of Haring’s distinct artistic style that the artist is famous for. The composition centers on human figures, each filled with a different color, yellow, red or teal. One print from this series embodies the famous proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” Haring was largely interested in humanity throughout his career, often choosing to show intimate and vulnerable aspects of what it means to be human. The artist explored themes of creation, birth, sex, death and violence in his artwork.

Haring created multiple Pop Shop series during the span of his career, and derived the name from his original Pop Shop that he opened in a retail space in downtown New York in 1986. This shop was opened with the intention of making the artist’s work accessible to the general public, and this accessibility is an explicitly Pop sentiment.