“I could earn more money if I just painted a few things and jacked up the price,” Haring once remarked, “but that’s not what I’m about.”

This ethos carries through in the Pop Shop prints. Featuring bold blocks of colour, thick black outlines and Haring’s signature simplified figures, the works radiate with joy, humour and a universal energy. Figures dance, spring upwards, conjoin and twist in fantastical positions, often with action lines that suggest movement and vitality.

Pop Shop VI contains Haring’s one of signature motifs, the dancing man. Instantly recognisable, the work is a superlative example from the Street Artist. Haring has depicted the five dancing men, together making the shape of a hand. The work therefore is not only a joyous celebration of life, but a symbol of unity and togetherness. These motifs were developed during Haring’s early days of drawing on the empty advertising panels of New York’s subways in the early 1980s and became symbols of his larger goal: to create a visual vocabulary that could speak to people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures.

Haring’s aim was to inspire joy and connection rather than exclusivity. As Haring once explained, the Pop Shop wasn’t about chasing collectors; it was about sharing art.

The legacy of the Pop Shop lives on in these prints. They are artworks that encapsulate the essence of Keith Haring and Street Art: inclusive, optimistic and powerfully original.