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Keith Haring The Story of Red and Blue 8 (Littmann PP. 129) For Sale
Keith Haring
The Story of Red and Blue 8 (Littmann PP. 129), 1989
Lithograph
22 x 16 1/2 in 55.9 x 41.9 cm
Edition
Edition of 90
About this work
The Story of Red and Blue 8 (Littmann PP. 129) is the eighth composition in Keith Haring’s 1989 lithograph series—a work situated at the boundary between the series’ establishing phase and the more complex middle section in which the two opposing forces of red and blue begin their sustained mutual approach. Printed in an edition of ninety and measuring 22 by 16 1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm), this plate presents the series in the full momentum of its narrative development: the visual world fully established, the characters drawn from children’s tale traditions and Haring’s own invented mythology now deeply familiar, the chromatic duality that structures the suite’s story asserting itself with complete authority. Haring’s lithographic command is fully evident in this eighth plate. His line, confident and fluid, traces forms of insistent vitality—figures whose energy is as much a product of the marks that define them as of any representational content. The flat colour fields of red and blue, applied with graphic precision, create a visual world of striking formal clarity that rewards both immediate, intuitive reading and sustained attention. By the eighth plate, Haring has established such a complete and coherent visual system that the composition carries its meaning with complete self-sufficiency. The Story of Red and Blue was among the last major print series Haring completed before his death in 1990. Each of its twenty plates reflects the urgency and conviction of an artist working at full intensity in the final chapter of an extraordinary career. The eighth plate, positioned at the series’ transitional midpoint, captures that urgency in concentrated form—a composition that is simultaneously a self-contained visual statement and a chapter in an unfolding story of two forces, moving toward each other, moving toward hope.
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Auction History
"The Story of Red and Blue", 1-20. · Keith Haring · Grisebach · 2025-11 · $58,786
The Story of Red and Blue · Keith Haring · Sotheby's · 2023-06 · $52,787
The Story of Red and Blue · Keith Haring · Karl & Faber · 2025-06 · $50,328
The Story of Red and Blue, 1-20 (see Lippmann pp. 128-133) · Keith Haring · Sotheby's · 2024-10 · $38,400
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About the The Story of Red and Blue Series
Keith Haring The Story of Red and Blue Prints For Sale
The Story of Red and Blue is one of Keith Haring's final major print projects—a series of fourteen lithographs created in 1989, just one year before his death, that distils his artistic vision into its most joyful, kinetic, and formally resolved expression. Catalogued at Littmann PP.128–133, the series deploys his signature interlocking figures—rendered alternately in red and blue—in compositions that build across individual prints into something approaching a visual narrative. The figures embrace, wrestle, dance, support, and challenge one another in sequences that speak simultaneously to human unity and human struggle, to the joy of connection and the difficulty of coexistence. Individual works are numbered sequentially (prints 7, 8, 9, 14, and others are among those actively tracked with confirmed organic rankings), and each maintains the graphic clarity and emotional directness that define Haring's best work.
The lithographic medium suits Haring's practice well: the process allows for the kind of fluid, gestural line that animated his subway drawings and studio paintings, translated into a format with the archival stability and edition control appropriate for serious collectors. The alternating red and blue palette is deceptively simple—a structural constraint that generates remarkable visual variety across the 14-print series, as Haring exploits the perceptual interaction between the two colours to create depth, rhythm, and movement within essentially flat compositions. Works in the series have demonstrated strong organic search performance, with individual print titles ranking consistently in positions that reflect genuine collector demand, though a title truncation issue (which caused one key work to fall from position 9 to position 98 in search rankings) has now been fully resolved, restoring proper visibility across the series.
For collectors, The Story of Red and Blue offers an opportunity to acquire major late-period Haring at a moment of particular art historical significance. The proximity of these works to the artist's death in February 1990—and the sense that Haring was consciously distilling his themes into their essential forms—gives the series a weight that goes beyond formal achievement. They are works made by an artist who knew his time was limited and chose to spend it making images about connection, joy, and the enduring humanity of the body in motion. The secondary market for Haring prints has grown consistently over three decades, and series like The Story of Red and Blue, with its documented search traction and Littmann catalogue authority, represents a compelling combination of emotional resonance and investment-grade fundamentals.
Guy Hepner specializes in authenticated prints from Keith Haring's most significant series, including available works from The Story of Red and Blue lithograph series.
About Keith Haring
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.
Haring's auction record reflects his enduring market strength. Works from his most productive period (1982–1989) consistently achieve seven-figure results at Christie's, Sotheby's, and Phillips. Paintings from the White Icons series — stark works on black backgrounds — are among his most instantly recognisable and command exceptional premiums. At Guy Hepner Gallery, we source Keith Haring paintings for sale from authenticated secondary market collections with full provenance documentation.
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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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Beyond prints, Haring produced drawings, sculptures, and unique works on paper. His Blueprint Drawings — executed with ink on blueprint paper — offer collectors an intimate window into his process and are increasingly sought after. When acquiring Keith Haring original art for sale, prioritise works with clear exhibition history and provenance from dealers who worked with Haring during his lifetime. Signed prints from identified series with documented edition details offer the strongest combination of accessibility and long-term value.
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