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Keith Haring The Story of Red and Blue Cover (Littmann PP. 128) For Sale
Keith Haring
The Story of Red and Blue Cover (Littmann PP. 128), 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 Cover (Littmann PP. 128) is the visual gateway to one of Keith Haring’s most celebrated print series—the lithograph that functions as the threshold image for the twenty-plate narrative suite produced in 1989. Printed in an edition of ninety and measuring 22 by 16 1/2 inches (55.9 x 41.9 cm), this cover plate serves as an introduction to the world of the series, to its two chromatic protagonists, and to the visual language with which Haring tells his fable of duality and convergence across the twenty compositions that follow. As the first image a viewer encounters, it sets the terms of everything that comes after—and meets that responsibility with the graphic authority and emotional directness that characterise Haring at his finest. The cover plate deploys Haring’s visual vocabulary with complete assurance. His bold, unbroken lithographic line traces figures of compelling energy, while the palette of red and blue—the twin chromatic forces that give the series its name and its narrative—is introduced here as both formal and symbolic presence. The flat, graphic character of the image gives the cover a quality of immediate legibility that transcends language and cultural boundary: this is an image that announces itself and invites entry, a visual threshold that opens onto a world of meaning. The Story of Red and Blue was produced in 1989, during the final chapter of Haring’s brief life. The series represents him working at the intersection of his deepest formal convictions and his most personal symbolic concerns—an artist who had spent more than a decade democratising visual culture now creating a work that was simultaneously widely accessible and intimately felt. The cover lithograph is the beginning of that journey: the first image in a story about hope, rendered by an artist who believed in hope with total conviction.
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Auction History
”The Story of Red and Blue”, 1-20 · Keith Haring · Grisebach · 2025-11 · $67,960
The Story of Red and Blue · Keith Haring · Sotheby's · 2023-06 · $60,857
The Story of Red and Blue, 1-20 (see Littmann 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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