Retrospect
Medium: Screen-print in colors on heavy wove paper
Year: 1989
Image: 40 3/4 x 77 inches (103.5 x 195.6 cm)
Sheet: 45 3/4 x 82 inches (116.2 x 208.3 cm)
Edition: 75
Artist’s Proofs: 7
Other: 3 PP
Publisher: Martin Lawrence Editions, New-York, Los Angeles
Literature: Littmann pp. 120-121
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil with the publisher’s blindstamp
Retrospect is an edited survey of Haring’s series Pop Shop I-VI and features many of the artist’s most famous motifs, including barking dogs, dog man, angel and radiant baby. Made at a time when the artist was ailing from HIV Aids, Retrospect also includes several new images which do not appear in previous Pop Shop iterations and which were presumably intended for another series, tragically never realized. In an interview given a few months before his death in February 1990, Haring movingly talks about the new perspective his illness had given him as an artist:
‘The thing about all the projects I am working on now…is that there is a certain sense of summing up in them. Everything I do now is a chance to put a crown on the whole thing. It adds another kind of intensity to the work that I do now; it’s one of the good things to come from being sick. If you’re writing a story you can sort of ramble on and go in a lot of directions at once, but when you get to the end of the story, you have to start pointing all the things toward one thing. That’s the point that I’m at now, not knowing where it stops but knowing how important it is to do it now. The whole thing is getting much more articulate. In a way it’s really liberating.’
Auction Results
Ketterer Kunst: 12 June 2026
Estimated: EUR 120,000 – 180,000
EUR 152,220 / USD 178,095
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Retrospect (Littmann p. 120), 1989
Silkscreen in colors on firm wove paper
Signed, dated, numbered, and with the copyright mark
From an edition of 75 copies
Published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York (with the embossing stamp)
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Sotheby’s online: 25 September 2024
Estimated: GBP 60,000 – 80,000
GBP 72,000 / USD 93,530
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors on sturdy wove paper
Sheet: 46×82 inches (117×208 cm)
Signed in pencil, dated and inscribed HC 6/7
This work is one of seven hors commerce impressions aside from the edition of 75
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Heritage Auctions: 24 October 2023
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 250,000
USD 200,000
KEITH HARING
Retrospect, 1989
Screen-print in colors on wove paper
Signed, editioned 9/75 and dated in pencil along lower edge
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Sotheby’s London: 19 March 2020
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 200,000
GBP 187,500 / USD 219,600
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
RETROSPECT (LITTMANN P. 120-121), 1989
Screen-print in colors
Signed in pencil, dated, numbered 46/75
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Christie’s New-York: 22 October 2019
Estimated: USD 150,000 – 200,000
USD 275,000
KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screen-print in colors on thick wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 24/75
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Christie’s London: 17 September 2019
Estimated: GBP 150,000 – 250,000
GBP 225,000 / USD 280,690
KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screen-print in colors on thick wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 36/75
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Christie’s London: 20 September 2018
Estimated: GBP 120,000 – 180,000
GBP 200,000 / USD 264,730
KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors on thick wove paper
Signed and dated in pencil
Numbered 28/75 (there were also seven artist’s proofs)
Published by M. Lawrence Editions, New York, with their blindstamp
The colors fresh and bright, the full sheet, in very good condition, in the publisher’s original frame
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Sotheby’s London: 27 March 2018
Estimated: GBP 60,000 – 80,000
GBP 75,000 / USD 106,210
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors
Signed in pencil, dated, numbered 51/75
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Sotheby’s New-York: 28 April 2017
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 106,250
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors
Signed in pencil, dated, numbered 30/75
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Christie’s New-York: 2 November 2016
Estimated: USD 70,000 – 100,000
USD 168,750
UNSIGNED PROOF
KEITH HARING (1958-1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors on wove paper
The colors exceptionally fresh
An unsigned proof aside from the edition of 75
Published by Martin Lawrence Editions, Ltd., New York
With their blindstamp and copyright inkstamp on the reverse
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Phillips New-York: 25 April 2016
Estimated: USD 100,000 – 150,000
USD 197,000
KEITH HARING
Restrospect, 1989
Monumental screenprint in colors on heavy wove paper
The colors fresh and bright
Signed, dated `89′ and numbered AP 7/7 in pencil
An artist’s proof, the edition was 75
Published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, Los Angeles (with their inkstamps on the reverse)
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Sotheby’s London: 29 September 2015
Estimated: GBP 30,000 – 50,000
GBP 93,750 / USD 142,180
KEITH HARING (1958 – 1990)
Retrospect, 1989
Screenprint in colors
Signed in pencil
A Proof aside from the edition of 75
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Retrospect (20/75), 1989
Christie’s New-York: 30 October 2013
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 80,000
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Retrospect (PP 2/3), 1989
Christie’s New-York: 25 April 2012
Estimated: USD 30,000 – 50,000
USD 68,500
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Retrospect (37/75), 1989
Sotheby’s New-York: 30 October 2010
Estimated: USD 40,000 – 60,000
USD 56,250
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Retrospect (13/75), 1989
Sotheby’s London: 16 September 2010
Estimated: GBP 25,000 – 35,000
GBP 39,650 / USD 61,905
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Retrospect (64/75), 1989
Christie’s London: 1 October 2008
Estimated: GBP 20,000 – 30,000
GBP 38,450 / USD 68,440