Keith Haring’s Growing Suite Portfolio (1988) stands as a luminous testament to the artist’s unmistakable visual language—bold, rhythmic, and profoundly human. Comprising a set of five vibrant screenprints, this series captures the pulsating energy of life, transformation, and interconnectedness that coursed through Haring’s work during the late 1980s.

Each print in The Growing Portfolio is a dynamic interplay of line, form, and color, rendered in Haring’s signature style: thick black outlines, saturated fields of primary hues, and the unmistakable presence of dancing, writhing figures. These figures—simultaneously anonymous and universal—evoke themes of birth, evolution, and collective identity. As they expand, merge, and ascend across the compositions, they suggest a narrative of growth that is both physical and spiritual, deeply rooted in the cycles of existence.

Created during a period of profound personal and cultural urgency, the series reflects Haring’s deepening exploration of the human condition. While undeniably playful and energetic on the surface, The Growing also carries a poignant gravity. The works speak to the explosive vitality of youth and the inevitable passage of time, as well as the artist’s own confrontation with mortality amid the backdrop of the AIDS crisis.

Executed with impeccable precision and emotional clarity, these screenprints are more than decorative—they are declarations. Haring transforms the simplicity of line into a language of power, and in The Growing, he elevates that language to poetic heights. The portfolio stands not only as a culmination of his graphic mastery but also as a philosophical meditation on life’s relentless forward motion.

Today, The Growing Portfolio endures as one of Haring’s most iconic print series—a celebration of motion, meaning, and the enduring vitality of the human spirit.

Featured in this portfolio are Keith Haring Growing 1, Growing 2, Growing 3, Growing 4, Growing 5.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:
Keith Haring The Growing Portfolio, 1988 (Set of 5 Prints) is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. Klaus Littman. Keith Haring: Editions on Paper 1982-1990, The Complete Printed Works. Hatje Cantz Publishers: New York, 1993. Listed on pg. 88 and illustrated on pgs. 88-91.
2. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany this artwork.

About the Framing:
Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Keith Haring The Growing Portfolio, 1988 (Set of 5 Prints) is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.

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