Flowers (Blue), 1990

"Flowers (Blue)" is a silkscreen created by Keith Haring in 1990. From the edition of 133, the artwork is signed and dated 'K. Haring '90' and annotated vertical right. The artwork is framed in a contemporary black frame and has a framed size of 50.5 x 62.5". The artwork ships framed and accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Keith Haring’s "Flowers (Blue), 1990," reveals the extraordinary inventiveness of the artist’s final year, when his imagery became at once more distilled and more emotionally resonant. Part of the celebrated 'Flowers' portfolio, the print transforms the familiar subject of the flower into something far less decorative and far more animated: a stage on which nature, vitality, and appetite collide. Like the other works in the series, it is a large-format screenprint, framed by Haring’s bold black border and energized by his unmistakable graphic line.

Set against a bright blue ground, the composition is unusually active. In the upper left corner, a radiant yellow sun looks on, establishing a sense of cosmic witness and life-giving force. Across the center, an orange insect-like creature stretches one appendage toward a cluster of flowers, seeming to tear several blooms from their stems. Its open mouth suggests consumption, introducing a note of tension into a subject more commonly associated with serenity or beauty. Rather than presenting nature as purely harmonious, Haring shows it as a world of motion, instinct, and transformation.

As in the "Red" version, the color is handled with a deliberately painterly touch rather than as a flat, mechanical fill. The surface is alive with hand-drawn marks, and the vertical drips running across the image underscore the balance Haring sought between the repeatable medium of printmaking and the immediacy of gesture. That tension is central to the power of the Flowers series: these are editioned works, yet they retain the pulse of something spontaneous and alive.

In the context of Haring’s life and career, "Flowers (Blue)" becomes more than a playful arrangement of forms. Created in 1990, the year of his death, it can be understood as an image of life in all its complexity—growth, beauty, hunger, fragility, and renewal. Haring’s flower is never merely botanical; it becomes an emblem of existence itself, simplified into a universal sign. In this print, that sign is charged with unusual drama, making Flowers Blue one of the most compelling and psychologically vivid works in the series.