Pop Shop V C

Keith Haring’s **Pop Shop V C** distils the artist’s radical graphic language into a highly collectible edition that bridges street culture and the fine-art market. Executed with Haring’s signature bold contour line, flat fields of saturated colour, and rhythmic repetition, the composition channels the immediacy of subway drawings while retaining the polish of screenprint production.

Created in the spirit of the Pop Shop project, the work champions accessibility and the democratic circulation of images, positioning art as a public language rather than a private luxury. Its animated figures and emblematic motifs evoke 1980s New York—music, activism, and media saturation—while affirming Haring’s enduring influence on contemporary pop art, urban art, and visual culture.

Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness.

In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney M…