Growing 1988
by Keith Haring
Year: 1988
Medium: Screenprint
Size: 30" x 40" (76.2 cm x 101.6cm)
Screenprint in colors on Wove Paper
Rooted in Keith Haring’s vibrant late-1980s practice, Growing (1988) is a 30 × 40-inch (76.2 × 101.6 cm) color screenprint on wove paper. Its rhythmic imagery and bold graphic vocabulary evoke Haring’s enduring dialogue with street culture, Pop art, and social expression. With its strong period identity and collectible scale, this distinctive work offers discerning collectors a compelling example of Haring’s influential visual language.
Growing (1988) is a five-print screenprint portfolio from Keith Haring’s mature New York period. It first appears as a studio print project, not as a known street-graffiti work. Haring’s subway drawings remain its foundation, but Growing moves that direct public language onto Lenox Museum Board, where bold figures become a larger meditation on change, unity, and renewal.
Across the suite, bodies merge, multiply, stretch, and transform. Haring’s human forms read almost like modern hieroglyphs: simple symbols carrying ideas about community, equality, resilience, and collective growth. Created against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, social division, and political tension, the work balances urgency with optimism.
Each print is from an edition of 100, making complete sets particularly desirable. The market has confirmed that importance: a complete Growing set reached $762,000 at Sotheby’s in 2025, far above its $250,000–$350,000 estimate.
At ArtLife, we see Growing as Haring at his most expansive—playful forms carrying serious ideas about how people survive and evolve together.
The portfolio sits firmly within Haring’s late-1980s printmaking practice, alongside Pop Shop, Apocalypse, and Icons. For collectors, Growing offers both cultural depth and proven market strength.
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Growing 1988
by Keith Haring
Year: 1988
Medium: Screenprint
Size: 30" x 40" (76.2 cm x 101.6cm)
Screenprint in colors on Wove Paper
Rooted in Keith Haring’s vibrant late-1980s practice, Growing (1988) is a 30 × 40-inch (76.2 × 101.6 cm) color screenprint on wove paper. Its rhythmic imagery and bold graphic vocabulary evoke Haring’s enduring dialogue with street culture, Pop art, and social expression. With its strong period identity and collectible scale, this distinctive work offers discerning collectors a compelling example of Haring’s influential visual language.
Growing (1988) is a five-print screenprint portfolio from Keith Haring’s mature New York period. It first appears as a studio print project, not as a known street-graffiti work. Haring’s subway drawings remain its foundation, but Growing moves that direct public language onto Lenox Museum Board, where bold figures become a larger meditation on change, unity, and renewal.
Across the suite, bodies merge, multiply, stretch, and transform. Haring’s human forms read almost like modern hieroglyphs: simple symbols carrying ideas about community, equality, resilience, and collective growth. Created against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis, social division, and political tension, the work balances urgency with optimism.
Each print is from an edition of 100, making complete sets particularly desirable. The market has confirmed that importance: a complete Growing set reached $762,000 at Sotheby’s in 2025, far above its $250,000–$350,000 estimate.
At ArtLife, we see Growing as Haring at his most expansive—playful forms carrying serious ideas about how people survive and evolve together.
The portfolio sits firmly within Haring’s late-1980s printmaking practice, alongside Pop Shop, Apocalypse, and Icons. For collectors, Growing offers both cultural depth and proven market strength.