Keith Haring — Pop Shop Quad II (1988)

Created at the height of Keith Haring’s mature period, Pop Shop Quad II (1988) distills the artist’s New York visual language into a museum-recognizable, four-panel icon: bold contour lines, flat primary color, and kinetically charged figures that carry Haring’s enduring themes—life, love, freedom, and social justice—from the subway to the global canon. Conceived within the celebrated Pop Shop project, the work embodies Haring’s radical idea that contemporary art could be both culturally consequential and widely accessible; decades later, that democratic impulse has only amplified its historical relevance, as Pop Shop images have become shorthand for the 1980s downtown scene and the crossover of street culture, design, and fine art.

Offered here in a strictly limited edition, signed, dated, and numbered in pencil by the artist, this print is documented in the standard reference literature (Littmann) and sits within one of the most actively collected segments of Haring’s output—his graphic editions—sought after by institutions and private collectors alike. With works by Haring held in major museum collections including MoMA, Centre Pompidou, and Tate, and with sustained international auction demand for Pop Shop sheets—often achieving results above €40,000—Pop Shop Quad II is widely regarded as a blue-chip entry point into a globally liquid market category where condition, edition details, and proper documentation are decisive for long-term value retention.