In 1985-86, Keith Haring created the artworks Andy Mouse as tributes to his friend, hero, and mentor Andy Warhol. This was an extremely prolific time period for Haring, coming off the heels of his second major exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York in 1984. It was at this show that Warhol and Haring first met. The two artists immediately bonded over their shared belief in creating “Art for Everybody” and their mutual admiration of Walt Disney, who had inspired both of their artistic practices. From the moment they met, a deep friendship blossomed between Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, forging a close bond that extended beyond the art world. Haring frequented Warhol’s iconic Factory, and their encounters sparked a unique exchange of artistic creations. They would often trade works, drawing inspiration from each other’s distinctive styles and visions.

“You see, whatever I’ve done would not have been possible without Andy. Had Andy not broken the concept of what art is supposed to be, I just wouldn’t have been able to exist.” 

 

 

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Introduction

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Keith Haring’s Andy Mouse is a superlative example of the artist’s iconic pop art vernacular and a testament to his relationship with Andy Warhol, both an artistic contemporary and friend of Haring. Depicting Warhol with features referencing Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, the present work draws a parallel between Disney’s children’s cartoons and Warhol’s complex social commentary, perhaps alluding to the capitalist foundations of entertainment and media. A thorough embodiment of the Pop Movement, Andy Mouse features the key elements of money, media, and art which propelled the likes of Warhol and Haring to cultural stardom. The very serialization of this work, both as a set of four images and as an editioned print, alludes to these ubiquitous pop-themes. An homage to his mentor and friend Andy Warhol, the present work demonstrates Haring’s masterful ability to unite a nostalgia for his American upbringing during the ‘golden age of television’ with a recognition of what Warhol recognized as emblems of the profound impact these commercial images had on contemporary culture.

Adapting of one the most internationally recognized and celebrated cartoon characters, Haring presents the viewer with his hybrid Andy Mouse cartoon. This large-scale set of four screen-prints, evoking his wall drawings and subway posters, skillfully combines three different symbols of commerce – the dollar sign, Mickey Mouse and Andy Warhol — with a deceptively simple palette of red, yellow, white and black, reintroducing the commercial colors of 1960s Pop.

 “Warhol’s life and work made my work possible. … he was the first real public artist and his art and his life changed our conception of art and life in the 20th century”.

In Andy Mouse, Keith Haring ingeniously adapts the iconic Mickey Mouse into his own kinetic visual language, infusing the cartoon character with symbols of commerce and Pop Art as an homage to Andy Warhol. Executed as four large-scale screens evoking his bold public murals, Haring densely packs each print with overlapping mouse figures, dollar signs, and references to consumerism and branding. Through the use of a spectrum of vibrant colors, Haring creates high-energy compositions filled with the bright, graphic commercial styling emblematic of 1960s Pop Art. The solid red and yellow backgrounds provide visual rhythm, contrasting with the dancing black contour lines that animate the mouse figures, bringing them to life in perpetual motion. Haring overlays the opaque red and transparent yellow layers to produce vibrancy, depth, and an illusion of continuous movement as the figures dynamically interact and overlap. The purity of the elemental color scheme concentrates the visual impact, while the absence of intermediary hues makes the composition appear to vibrate with kinetic energy, reflecting the performative essence of Haring’s unique visual language.

Printed in seven colors (black, grey, green, blue, yellow, red, pink and orange) in an edition of 30, the Andy Mouse series is significant for its formal qualities as well as its subject. Though Haring had experimented with print techniques such as lithography in the late 1970s it wasn’t until 1983 that he began making screen prints. Adopted from the world of commercial printing, this method offered a way of creating multiple images with vivid colors and little variation between prints. It soon became evident that the energy and curiosity Haring demonstrated for painting translated perfectly into printmaking and he began to work with publishers across the US, Switzerland, Japan, Germany, France, Denmark and Holland, producing ever more inventive and daring work. Though many of his prints were made in editions of 100 or more, there is an element of precision in every single one that shows the level of care with which he supervised the process.

Andy Mouse emerged as a culmination of Keith Haring’s artistic explorations, combining his love of drawing with an interest in mass production. Haring recognized, as Warhol did, the visual power of mass media images regardless of scale. With ingenuity, he interwove the iconic Mickey Mouse with repetitive dollar signs, seamlessly fusing Pop Art symbols with his signature hand-drawn aesthetic. Through its bold graphic qualities, dynamic compositions, and vibrant color palette, this extraordinary work represents a high point in Haring’s prolific career. With its bold graphic qualities, vibrant color palette, and inventive blending of commercial symbols, Andy Mouse holds a significant place in Haring’s portfolio and has cemented its importance in Contemporary imagery.

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Andy Mouse, 1986

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Andy Mouse

The complete set of four screen-prints in colors
Medium: Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Year: 1986
Sheet: 38×38 inches (96.4 x 96.4 cm)
Edition: 30
Artist’s Proofs: 10 AP
Other: 5 HC (Hors Commerce impression), 5 PP (Printer’s Proof impression)
Publisher: George Mulder Fine Art, New York
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New-York
Literature: Littmann pp. 64-65

Each signed, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist, and signed by the subject Andy Warhol in pencil, with the blindstamp of the printer, Rupert Jasen Smith

Andy Mouse #1 (Littmann p. 64)

Andy Mouse #2 (Littmann p. 64)

Andy Mouse #3 (Littmann p. 65)

Andy Mouse #4 (Littmann p. 65)

 

 

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Auction Market Overview

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Andy Mouse is the most expensive single print by Keith Haring to have sold at auction. Not only this series is the perfect example of the work of the artist at the top of his career, but the edition size is relatively small at 30, and, more importantly, it is also signed by the subject himself: Andy Warhol.

2025 Auction Highlights

2 prints from the series sold in 2025. Andy Mouse #4 sold at Heritage Auctions on 22 April 2025 for USD 325,000. Andy Mouse #3 sold at Swann Auction Galleries on 5 June 2025, for USD 173,000. No complete set sold at auction in 2025.

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse Plate 4 (Littmann p. 65), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Edition AW 5/5 (aside from an edition of 30)
Signed, editioned, and dated in pencil along lower edge
Additionally signed by Andy Warhol lower left

2024 Auction Highlights

Only one print from Andy Mouse sold at auction in 2024, at SBI Art Auction on 6 July 2024, for JPY 32,200,000 (USD 200,310).

Andy Mouse #3, 1986

SBI Art Auction: 6 July 2024
Estimated: JPY 15,000,000 – 25,000,000
JPY 32,200,000 / USD 200,310

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p.65), 1986
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol on the lower left
A Printer’s Proof (PP) aside from the edition of 30

 

2023 Auction Highlights

2 complete sets sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 2,154,600. One Complete Set sold at Christie’s in New-York on 27 September 2023 for USD 1,209,600, just short of the auction record for a Complete Set of Andy Mouse, achieved at Ketterer Kunst on 18 June 2021, when a complete set sold for EUR 1,037,500 (USD 1,231,745). A complete set also sold at Heritage Auctions on 24 October 2023, for USD 945,000.

Andy Mouse, 1986

Christie’s New-York: 27 September 2023
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,209,600
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors on paper, in four parts
Each signed, numbered and dated ’20/30 K Haring 86′ (lower right)
Each additionally signed by the subject ‘Andy Warhol’ (lower left)

4 prints from Andy Mouse sold in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 893,805 at an average price of USD 223,451. The highest price has been achieved by Andy Mouse #4, that sold at Christie’s online, on 16 March 2023, for GBP 226,000 (USD 274,642).

Andy Mouse #4, 1986

Christie’s online: 16 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 226,000 / USD 274,642

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse: One Plate, 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil
Numbered PP 1/5
A printer’s proof aside from the edition of thirty published by George Mulder, New York

 

2022 Auction Highlights

One complete set selling in 2022 for USD 1,008,000 at Sotheby’s in New-York on 30 September 2022.

Andy Mouse, 1986

Sotheby’s New-York: 30 September 2022
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,008,000
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse [set of 4], 1986
Each signed by Andy Warhol
Each signed with the artist’s signature K Haring and moniker, dated 1986 and numbered 24/30
(lower right)

One print from the series sold in 2022 at Christie’s in London on 28 September 2022 for GBP 214,200 (USD 231,143).

Andy Mouse #2, 1986

Christie’s London: 28 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 130,000 – 150,000
GBP 214,200 / USD 231,843

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors, 1986, on Lenox Museum Board
Signed by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil, dated and numbered 14/30

 

 

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2025 Auction Results

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KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse Plate 4 (Littmann p. 65), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Edition AW 5/5 (aside from an edition of 30)
Signed, editioned, and dated in pencil along lower edge
Additionally signed by Andy Warhol lower left

#2. Andy Mouse #3, 1986

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse (Littmann 65), 1986
Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed, dated and numbered 6/30 in pencil, lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol in pencil, lower left

 

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2024 Auction Results

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Andy Mouse #3, 1986

SBI Art Auction: 6 July 2024
Estimated: JPY 15,000,000 – 25,000,000
JPY 32,200,000 / USD 200,311

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p.65), 1986
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol on the lower left
A Printer’s Proof (PP) aside from the edition of 30

 

 

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2023 Auction Results

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2 complete sets sold at auction in 2023 for a total turnover of USD 2,154,600. One Complete Set sold at Christie’s in New-York on 27 September 2023 for USD 1,209,600, just short of the auction record for a Complete Set of Andy Mouse, achieved at Ketterer Kunst on 18 June 2021, when a complete set sold for EUR 1,037,500 (USD 1,231,745). A complete set also sold at Heritage Auctions on 24 October 2023, for USD 945,000.

Andy Mouse, 1986

Christie’s New-York: 27 September 2023
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,209,600
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors on paper, in four parts
Each signed, numbered and dated ’20/30 K Haring 86′ (lower right)
Each additionally signed by the subject ‘Andy Warhol’ (lower left)

Andy Mouse, 1986

Heritage Auctions: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 700,000 – 900,000
USD 945,000
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Portfolio of four screen-prints in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Each signed, numbered and dated ‘1/30 K Haring 86’ along lower edge
Each additionally signed by the subject ‘Andy Warhol’ (lower left)

Andy Mouse #4, 1986

Christie’s online: 16 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 226,000 / USD 274,642

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse: One Plate, 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil
Numbered PP 1/5
A printer’s proof aside from the edition of thirty published by George Mulder, New York

Andy Mouse #1, 1986

Bonhams New-York: 30 October 2023
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 254,500

Andy Mouse #2, 1986

Sotheby’s New-York: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 250,000
USD 228,600

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse: one plate (L. p. 64), 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox museum board
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 8/30
Also signed by Andy Warhol

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p. 65)
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed, dated and inscribed
An HC aside from the edition of 30

 

 

 

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2022 Auction Results

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Andy Mouse, 1986

Sotheby’s New-York: 30 September 2022
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,008,000
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse [set of 4], 1986
Each signed by Andy Warhol
Each signed with the artist’s signature K Haring and moniker, dated 1986 and numbered 24/30
(lower right)

Andy Mouse #2, 1986

Christie’s London: 28 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 130,000 – 150,000
GBP 214,200 / USD 231,843

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors, 1986, on Lenox Museum Board
Signed by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil, dated and numbered 14/30

 

 

 

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Andy Mouse #1

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Bonhams New-York: 30 October 2023
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 254,500

Santa Monica Auction: 7 November 2021
Estimated: USD 200,000 – 300,000
USD 275,000 (Hammer)
USD 349,250

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse, 1986
Silkscreen
Signed
From the numbered edition of 30

Mainichi Auction: 20 January 2018
Estimated: JPY 10,000,000 – 15,000,000
JPY 17,000,000 (Hammer)
JPY 19,805,000 / USD 178,965

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Andy Mouse #2

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Sotheby’s New-York: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 250,000
USD 228,600

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse: one plate (L. p. 64), 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox museum board
Signed in pencil, dated and numbered 8/30
Also signed by Andy Warhol

Christie’s London: 28 September 2022
Estimated: GBP 130,000 – 150,000
GBP 214,200 / USD 231,843

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors, 1986, on Lenox Museum Board
Signed by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil, dated and numbered 14/30

Christie’s New-York: 27 April 2016
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 137,000

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil
Numbered ‘AP 8/10’ (an artist’s proof, the edition was 20)

 

 

 

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Andy Mouse #3

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KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse (Littmann 65), 1986
Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed, dated and numbered 6/30 in pencil, lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol in pencil, lower left

SBI Art Auction: 6 July 2024
Estimated: JPY 15,000,000 – 25,000,000
JPY 32,200,000 / USD 200,311

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p.65), 1986
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol on the lower left
A Printer’s Proof (PP) aside from the edition of 30

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p. 65)
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed, dated and inscribed
An HC aside from the edition of 30

Sotheby’s New-York: 21 October 2021
Estimated: USD 60,000 – 80,000
USD 107,100

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p. 65), 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
A proof aside from the numbered edition of 30
Authenticated but unsigned

Sotheby’s New-York: 22 April 2021
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 239,400

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse (Littmann p. 65), 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed ‘HC 2/5’
An hors commerce impression aside from the numbered edition of 30 plus ten artist’s proofs
Also signed in pencil by Andy Warhol

 

 

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Andy Mouse #4

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KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse Plate 4 (Littmann p. 65), 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Edition AW 5/5 (aside from an edition of 30)
Signed, editioned, and dated in pencil along lower edge
Additionally signed by Andy Warhol lower left

Christie’s online: 16 March 2023
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 226,000 / USD 274,642

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse: One Plate, 1986
Screen-print in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and Andy Warhol in pencil
Numbered PP 1/5
A printer’s proof aside from the edition of thirty published by George Mulder, New York

Ketterer Kunst: 17 July 2020
Estimated: EUR 100,000 – 150,000
EUR 250,000 / USD 285,940

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse, 1986
Sheet 4 from the series
Silkscreen in colors on Lennox Museum Board
Signed, dated and with the copyright sign
Additionally signed by Andy Warhol
From an edition of 30 copies

SBI Art Auction: 27 July 2019
Estimated: JPY 15,000,000 – 25,000,000
JPY 22,425,000 / USD 206,375

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (Littmann p.65), 1986
Screenprint
Signed, dated and numbered on the lower right
Signed by Andy Warhol on the lower left
PP aside from ED. 30

LA Modern: 17 February 2019
Estimated: USD 120,000 – 180,000
USD 212,500

KEITH HARING
Plate from Andy Mouse Portfolio, 1986
Color screenprint on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated with edition in graphite lower right margin beneath image
Signed by Andy Warhol with printer’s blind stamp lower left;
Edition: #29 of 30

Phillips New-York: 17 October 2017
Estimated: USD 120,000 – 180,000
USD 175,000

Mainichi Auction: 11 March 2017
Estimated: JPY 10,000,000 – 15,000,000
JPY 17,500,000 (Hammer)
JPY 20,387,500 / USD 177,585

 

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screenprint
Signed
Printers Proof 3/5

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MARC BELL, BOCA RATON, FLORIDA
Christie’s New-York: 2 November 2016
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 205,500

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse: one plate, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and the subject Andy Warhol in pencil
Numbered 27/30

Christie’s New-York: 27 April 2016
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 209,000

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse: one plate, 1986
Screenprint in colors on Lennox Museum Board
Signed and dated by the artist and the subject Andy Warhol in pencil
Annotated ‘AW 3/5’ (an artist’s proof, the edition was 30)

 

 

 

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Complete Sets

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Heritage Auctions: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 700,000 – 900,000
USD 945,000
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Portfolio of four screen-prints in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Each signed, numbered and dated ‘1/30 K Haring 86’ along lower edge
Each additionally signed by the subject ‘Andy Warhol’ (lower left)

Christie’s New-York: 27 September 2023
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,209,600
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Andy Mouse, 1986
Screen-print in colors on paper, in four parts
Each signed, numbered and dated ’20/30 K Haring 86′ (lower right)
Each additionally signed by the subject ‘Andy Warhol’ (lower left)

Sotheby’s New-York: 30 September 2022
Estimated: USD 800,000 – 1,200,000
USD 1,008,000
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Andy Mouse [set of 4], 1986
Each signed by Andy Warhol
Each signed with the artist’s signature K Haring and moniker, dated 1986 and numbered 24/30
(lower right)

Ketterer Kunst: 18 June 2021
Estimated: EUR 300,000 – 400,000
EUR 1,037,500 / USD 1,231,746
COMPLETE SET
AUCTION RECORD FOR A COMPLETE SET OF ANDY MOUSE

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (the complete series), 1986
Silkscreen in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Each signed, dated and numbered in pencil
One of 10 Artist’s Proofs aside from the edition of 30

Sotheby’s London: 27 March 2018
Estimated: GBP 300,000 – 500,000
GBP 681,000 / USD 964,385
COMPLETE SET

KEITH HARING
Andy Mouse (L. pp. 64-65), 1986
The complete set, comprising four screenprints in colors on Lenox Museum Board
Each signed by Andy Warhol and Keith Haring in pencil
Dated, inscribed with Haring’s insignia, numbered PP 2/5
Printer’s proofs aside from the edition of 30