Pop Shop IV is Keith Haring’s vocabulary in full colour: four separate screenprints from 1989, each a large, self-contained scene built from the icons he had been drawing since his subway days. He studied semiotics at the School of Visual Arts and came to think of images as a kind of language, and this is that language at its most fluent: a winged angel, figures whose limbs lock together, two figures raising the Radiant Baby overhead, and a pair of barking dogs, in reds, yellows and browns with energy lines running through every sheet.
The baby is the centrepiece. Haring called it his logo, “the purest and most positive experience of human existence”, as he wrote in 1986, and the way it appears changes over the years. In his 1982 poster for nuclear disarmament it sits inside a mushroom cloud; here two figures hold it high, set against the sharply drawn dogs of the last print, so that tenderness and aggression sit side by side. He made the portfolio in 1989, the year he set up the Keith Haring Foundation and painted a mural in Chicago’s Grant Park with hundreds of local students, and in 1990 he would strip the same icons back to plain white embossings. For collectors, Pop Shop IV is the full-colour high point of that vocabulary: the clearest single picture of what Haring drew and why.
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Keith Haring Pop Shop IV Set (Littmann PP. 146-147)
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Untitled 1–6 (1982) Portfolio
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Fertility Portfolio
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Montreux Jazz Festival
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Free South Africa
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Ludo
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Three Lithographs
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Andy Mouse
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Bad Boys
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Lucky Strike
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Untitled 1–4 (1987)
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Apocalypse
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Growing
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Pop Shop I
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Pop Shop II
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Pop Shop III
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Pop Shop IV
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Pop Shop V
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Pop Shop VI
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Chocolate Buddha
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Pyramid
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Stones
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The Story of Red and Blue
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The Valley
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Totem
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