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Keith Haring The Blueprint Drawings (Complete Set) For Sale
Keith Haring
The Blueprint Drawings (Complete Set), 1990
Set of 17 screen prints Each signed, numbered and dated
Various (From 42 x 46 to 42 x 79 in) Various (From 106.7 × 116.8 cm to 106.7 × 200.7 cm)
Edition
Edition of 33 (Each)
About this work
The Blueprint Drawings is a powerful portfolio of seventeen prints created over several weeks in 1980, which Keith Haring revisited again in 1990, the final year of his life. Ambitious in both scale and execution, the works are based on photostats of original drawings made by Haring using Sumi ink on vellum. The series is notable for its experimental approach: it marked the first time Haring employed this blueprint-style medium, while also reimagining many of the recurring visual motifs that defined his practice. The resulting images are among the most striking and uncompromising in Haring’s oeuvre. A sense of violence and chaos runs throughout the portfolio. Haring’s figures tumble down staircases, are pursued and attacked by dogs, and hang suspended by their feet. Fear and panic permeate the scenes as the figures flee both dogs and looming spaceships—symbols that broadly suggest forces of “otherness” or an overwhelming non-human power. In the second plate of the series, a crowd of figures appears to be assaulted by descending spacecraft, while beneath a staircase a pile of bodies accumulates and a decapitated figure hangs lifelessly above them. The imagery is stark and unsettling, presenting a direct confrontation with mortality—an especially poignant theme as Haring himself was living with AIDS and witnessing the illness claim the lives of many friends and fellow artists. Structurally, each print is arranged in a grid-like composition reminiscent of a comic strip. The scenes unfold across panels of varying sizes; in some plates, such as plate seven, the format narrows its focus to a single moment, intensifying the depiction of suffering and vulnerability. While Haring had used a similar panelled structure in works like the Pop Shop Quads, here the familiar, almost childlike visual language stands in stark contrast to the dark and disturbing subject matter, heightening the emotional impact of the series.
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Auction History
The Blueprint Drawings (L. pp. 174-183) · Keith Haring · Phillips · 2022-04 · $554,400
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The Blueprint Drawings [17 works] · Keith Haring · Sotheby's · 2026-05 · $486,400
Untitled (Plate 1), from The Blueprint Drawings · Keith Haring · Heritage Auctions · 2023-10 · $42,500
Untitled (Plate 10), from The Blueprint Drawings · Keith Haring · Heritage Auctions · 2024-04 · $41,250
The Blueprint Drawings: plate 1 (L. pp. 174-175) · Keith Haring · Phillips · 2024-10 · $38,100
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About the The Blueprint Drawings Series
Keith Haring Blueprint Drawings For Sale
Created in 1990 during the final months of his life, Keith Haring's Blueprint Drawings are among the most poignant and collectible works in his entire catalogue. This suite of nineteen prints - produced using a blueprint reproduction process that renders his iconic figures as white lines on a distinctive cyan-blue ground - represents Haring's continued formal innovation even as his health declined from AIDS-related complications.
About the Blueprint Drawings Series
The Blueprint Drawings (1990) are catalogued in the Littmann raisonne and produced as individual prints rather than a sequential portfolio. Each work carries Haring's full graphic vocabulary - radiant babies, barking dogs, interlocking figures, dancing forms - but stripped back to their essential line on the stark blue field. The technique creates a quality closer to architectural drawings or scientific diagrams than to his more familiar pop-coloured screenprints, giving the series a contemplative, almost memorial quality.
As one of Haring's final completed series, the Blueprint Drawings carry significant biographical weight. They are consistently among the most sought-after works at auction and in private sales.
Keith Haring Blueprint Drawings For Sale: What to Know
Keith Haring Blueprint Drawings for sale on the secondary market are distinguished from the rest of his printed output by their rarity and late-career significance:
- Edition size - produced in small editions; numbered impressions from the edition are preferable to unnumbered examples
- Condition - the cyan ground is sensitive to fading under UV light; request a condition report specifically addressing colour integrity
- Subject matter - works featuring Haring's most iconic motifs (radiant baby, barking dog, dancing figures) command the strongest premiums
- Littmann reference - all impressions should be identified by their Littmann catalogue number for authentication
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Keith Haring prints for sale at Guy Hepner include works from the most sought-after series in his catalogue: the Blueprint Drawings, Retrospect, Lucky Strike, Andy Mouse, and the Pop Shop editions. Keith Haring paintings for sale and Keith Haring original art for sale through our New York gallery are sourced from authenticated secondary market collections with full provenance.
Keith Haring (1958–1990) transformed the walls of the New York City subway into a gallery before taking his visual language to the world's most prestigious museums. Born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, he arrived in New York in 1978 and developed the bold, energetic vocabulary — radiant babies, barking dogs, crawling figures — that would define his legacy. His career was cut short when he died of AIDS-related complications in 1990 at thirty-one, having compressed a lifetime's output into a decade of extraordinary productivity.
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Keith Haring paintings for sale represent some of the most sought-after works on the contemporary secondary market. His paintings — executed in acrylic on canvas, tarpaulin, or found materials — carry his full signature vocabulary: interlocking figures, radiating lines, and the symbolic shorthand developed across thousands of public works and private commissions. Major series include the Blueprint Drawings, Icons, and monumental canvases that translate his street aesthetic into gallery-scale statements.
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Keith Haring prints for sale encompass a rich body of editions produced throughout the 1980s. His screenprint series are particularly prized: Andy Mouse, Lucky Strike, Retrospect (1989), and the Pop Shop editions produced through his own retail venture on Lafayette Street. Signed and numbered editions from these series are the most actively traded and form the foundation of many Haring collections.
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