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Keith Haring Best Buddies

After Keith Haring "BEST BUDDIES" Beaded Wall Sculp by CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd
By CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
Signed and dated 2025. OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!!! ALTERTATION ART . . . is a collaboration process between Rick Wolfryd, fine artist and art dealer with over 40 years experience, and ...
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Rare 1980s Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Kaws. Vintage Keith Haring. Keith Haring posters. Pop Art
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1980s Pop Art More Art

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Lithograph, Offset

1980s Keith Haring Record Art: set of 4 (1980s Keith Haring album cover art)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art. Kaws. Vintage Keith
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1980s Pop Art More Art

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Best Buddies Poster /// Keith Haring Street Pop Art New York IDD Nonprofit Org
By Keith Haring
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Keith Haring (American, 1958-1990) Title: "Best Buddies" *Issued unsigned, though
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Shriver Best Buddies of America, Inc. Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper
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Best Buddies
Best Buddies
$57,000
H 26 in W 32 in

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Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies Lithograph 1982 Double-sided offset lithograph published by
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Keith Haring (untitled) TV lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Haring best buddies. Keith Haring men. Keith Haring television.
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
storefront. Related Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art
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Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
Artist: Keith Haring Title: “Best Buddies” Medium: Lithograph Date: 1990 Edition: 200 (aside
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1990s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Best Buddies
Best Buddies
H 26 in W 32 in D 1 in
Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keith Haring, American (1958 - 1990) Title: Best Buddies Year: 1990 Medium: Silkscreen
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1990s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Pop Shop I (1) Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Miami, FL
Reference Littman, K, & Haring K. Keith Haring, Editions on Paper 1982-1990: The Complete Printed
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Screen

Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies Lithograph 1982 Double-sided offset lithograph published by
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies Lithograph 1982 Double-sided offset lithograph published by
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring (untitled) Best Buddies Lithograph 1982: Double-sided lithographic insert from the
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Offset

Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
condition. Plate signed on lower left & dated 1983 Related Categories Keith Haring Best Buddies. Keith
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
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Keith Haring (untitled) TV lithograph 1982 (Keith Haring prints)
By Keith Haring
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Related Categories: Keith Haring Best Buddies. Keith
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Related Categories: Keith Haring Best Buddies. Keith
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
sounds by everyone from David Bowie to Run DMC. Related Categories: Keith Haring Best Buddies. Keith
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By Keith Haring
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
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Keith Haring 'Untitled (1987)' 1989- Vintage Art Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Reproduction of Keith Haring's "Best Buddies" artwork, created in 1990, features two figures
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1980s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Kaws. Vintage Keith Haring. Keith Haring posters. Pop Art
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1980s Pop Art More Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Offset

Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
storefront. Related Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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storefront. Related Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
By Keith Haring
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Rare original Keith Haring Record Art (Keith Haring David Bowie)
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Keith Haring David Bowie Vinyl Record Art (Keith Haring album art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
. Related Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art. Kaws
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1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Original Keith Haring Record Art: set of 4 (1980s Keith Haring album cover art)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Categories Figurative Drawings. Keith Haring best buddies. Graffiti. 1980s. Street art. Kaws. Vintage Keith
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1980s Pop Art Mixed Media

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Offset

Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Keith Haring, American (1958 - 1990) Title: Best Buddies Year: 1990 Medium: Silkscreen
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1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints

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Screen

Best Buddies
By Keith Haring
Located in Washington , DC, DC
After Keith Haring. Estate of Keith Haring seal on lower right
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1990s Contemporary More Art

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Lithograph

Best Buddies
H 23.5 in W 23.5 in D 1 in

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Keith Haring Best Buddies For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of keith haring best buddies available for sale. Finding the perfect Pop Art or Contemporary examples of these works for your space is difficult — today, we have a vast range of variations and more on offer. If you’re looking to add a keith haring best buddies that pops against an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include that feature elements of gray, beige, black, brown and more. Keith Haring and (after) Keith Haring took a thoughtful approach to this subject that are worth considering. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in screen print, lithograph and offset print — can elevate any room of your home. Large keith haring best buddies can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while the smaller iterations available — each spanning 9 inches in width — may make for a better choice for a more modest living area.

How Much are Keith Haring Best Buddies?

Prices for pieces in our collection of keith haring best buddies start at $394 and top out at $78,300 with the average selling for $37,500.

Keith Haring for sale on 1stDibs

Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.

Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.

To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing. 

“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”

Find Keith Haring art on 1stDibs today.

A Close Look at Pop Art Art

Perhaps one of the most influential contemporary art movements, Pop art emerged in the 1950s. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

ORIGINS OF POP ART

CHARACTERISTICS OF POP ART 

  • Bold imagery
  • Bright, vivid colors
  • Straightforward concepts
  • Engagement with popular culture 
  • Incorporation of everyday objects from advertisements, cartoons, comic books and other popular mass media

POP ARTISTS TO KNOW

ORIGINAL POP ART ON 1STDIBS

The Pop art movement started in the United Kingdom as a reaction, both positive and critical, to the period’s consumerism. Its goal was to put popular culture on the same level as so-called high culture.

Richard Hamilton’s 1956 collage Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? is widely believed to have kickstarted this unconventional new style.

Pop art works are distinguished by their bold imagery, bright colors and seemingly commonplace subject matter. Practitioners sought to challenge the status quo, breaking with the perceived elitism of the previously dominant Abstract Expressionism and making statements about current events. Other key characteristics of Pop art include appropriation of imagery and techniques from popular and commercial culture; use of different media and formats; repetition in imagery and iconography; incorporation of mundane objects from advertisements, cartoons and other popular media; hard edges; and ironic and witty treatment of subject matter.

Although British artists launched the movement, they were soon overshadowed by their American counterparts. Pop art is perhaps most closely identified with American Pop artist Andy Warhol, whose clever appropriation of motifs and images helped to transform the artistic style into a lifestyle. Most of the best-known American artists associated with Pop art started in commercial art (Warhol made whimsical drawings as a hobby during his early years as a commercial illustrator), a background that helped them in merging high and popular culture.

Roy Lichtenstein was another prominent Pop artist that was active in the United States. Much like Warhol, Lichtenstein drew his subjects from print media, particularly comic strips, producing paintings and sculptures characterized by primary colors, bold outlines and halftone dots, elements appropriated from commercial printing. Recontextualizing a lowbrow image by importing it into a fine-art context was a trademark of his style. Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture.

Pop art rose to prominence largely through the work of a handful of men creating works that were unemotional and distanced — in other words, stereotypically masculine. However, there were many important female Pop artists, such as Rosalyn Drexler, whose significant contributions to the movement are recognized today. Best known for her work as a playwright and novelist, Drexler also created paintings and collages embodying Pop art themes and stylistic features.

Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Prints And Multiples for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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Questions About Keith Haring
  • 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022
    Keith Haring became famous largely through people viewing the street art he created in subway stations and other locations in New York City. Throughout the 1980s, he was commissioned to produce art in dozens of cities all over the world and showed his works in solo and group exhibitions. A 1982 show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in Soho, New York City, earned rave reviews and greatly contributed to his fame. You'll find a selection of Keith Haring art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertAugust 8, 2024
    Keith Haring was known for his work as an artist. He began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called these underground places his “laboratory” to develop a radical new aesthetic based on the ideology of creating truly democratic public art. Haring used paintings, prints and murals to address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. These works derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he used to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture. To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring his imagery. Find a collection of Keith Haring art on 1stDibs.