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Keith Haring - The Valley 13 (Littmann PP. 141), 1989, Etching

The Valley 13 (Littmann PP. 141), 1989

Etching

14 x 12 1/2 in 35.6 x 31.8 cm

About this work

The Valley 13 (Littmann PP. 141) is the thirteenth etching in Keith Haring’s 1989 series The Valley—a composition that finds the series approaching its conclusion as the dark and complex visual world of the valley is depicted in its most fully realised state. Executed in etching on paper and measuring 14 by 12 1/2 inches (35.6 x 31.8 cm), this plate represents Haring’s fine-line intaglio practice near the height of its expressive range within the series—the careful, deliberate marks of the etching process here building a composition of considerable visual and psychological density. By the thirteenth plate, the world of the valley has been inhabited for long enough that its character is entirely established, its peculiar reality of chaos and transformation rendered with complete authority. The sustained engagement with etching technique that The Valley demanded of Haring produced, in this later section of the series, work of remarkable quality and confidence. The fine lines of the intaglio process accumulate into a surface that reveals more the longer it is examined—an intimacy of means that stands in deliberate and productive contrast to the broad public address of Haring’s murals and graphic prints. The imagery of this thirteenth plate, dark and surrealist in character, depicts the valley’s world with all the complexity and strangeness that the series has been building since its first composition. The Valley was produced as a complete collaborative suite—Haring’s etchings accompanied by text from William S. Burroughs—and represents one of the most ambitious joint projects in late-twentieth-century American print culture. The thirteenth plate, in the series’ final movement, is part of the sustained argument both artists were making about the expressive possibilities of their respective mediums and their willingness to inhabit difficult imaginative territory together.

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Auction History

Keith Haring - The Valley

The Valley · Keith Haring · Sotheby's · 2024-09 · $23,564

Keith Haring - The Valley

The Valley · Keith Haring · Christie's · 1999-11 · $7,475

Keith Haring - Untitled (from The Valley), 1989

Untitled (from The Valley), 1989 · Keith Haring · Freeman's · 2026-04 · $7,040

Keith Haring - Untitled (from The Valley series)

Untitled (from The Valley series) · Keith Haring · Rago · 2023-10 · $5,670

Keith Haring - The Valley: one plate (L. p. 141)

The Valley: one plate (L. p. 141) · Keith Haring · Phillips · 2025-10 · $4,515

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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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