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Keith Haring The Valley 5 (Littmann PP. 138) For Sale

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Keith Haring - The Valley 5 (Littmann PP. 138), 1989, Etching

The Valley 5 (Littmann PP. 138), 1989

Etching

14 x 12 1/2 in 35.6 x 31.8 cm

About this work

The Valley 5 (Littmann PP. 138) is the fifth etching in Keith Haring’s 1989 series The Valley—a work that marks the series’ transition from its establishing phase into the sustained visual exploration of the valley’s dark and chaotic world that will define the suite’s middle and final sections. Executed in etching on paper and measuring 14 by 12 1/2 inches (35.6 x 31.8 cm), this plate represents Haring’s engagement with fine-line intaglio technique at a moment when the visual language of the series has been established and is ready to develop in new directions. The fifth etching finds the world of the valley fully present, its atmosphere of dark surrealism beginning to deepen and intensify. The technical accomplishment of The Valley 5 lies in Haring’s deployment of the etching line—precise, fine, and capable of building considerable visual complexity through accumulation—to describe a compositional world that is simultaneously intimate and unsettling. The figures and forms that populate this plate, characteristic of the series’ consistently enigmatic and psychologically charged imagery, are rendered with the patience and deliberateness that the intaglio process demands. This quality of attention gives the work a density of surface and meaning that rewards repeated viewing. The Valley series, which Haring developed in collaboration with William S. Burroughs, represents his deepest engagement with themes that his more public work approached only obliquely: darkness, complexity, the ambiguity of human experience, and the strange and troubling territories of the imagination. The fifth plate is an important chapter in that engagement—a composition from the series’ early middle section that demonstrates Haring’s complete commitment to the demanding artistic project he and Burroughs undertook 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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