Keith Haring - Untitled (Pyramid with UFOs) - Artestar licensed print

Offset lithography of Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled” created by Haring in 1981..
Luxury edition on high-quality Fine Art paper of high grammage (250 g/m²)
Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation

- Sheet dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
- Subject dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is offered in immaculate condition).

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx)

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer.

(*) Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States.
He grew up in Kutztown and from an early age showed a great interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburg, and at 19 years old, already openly gay, moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts where he received influence from Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring attracted public attention in 1980, when he began drawing cartoon-like images with a marker on the subways of the Big Apple, and later drew white chalk cartoons on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vivid colors and active figures carried strong messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were filmed by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi.
Also around this time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57, and participated in a show at Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel, Germany.
In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the time such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol.
In 1984 Haring went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and even received money for his work from the National Gallery Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
He also made visits and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold”.
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held an exhibition of his work, and he also participated in the Paris Biennale.
In November of that year he appeared on MTV where he painted on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes, from Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, he also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video of the song “I’m Not Perfect”, and opened a shop to sell his works in SOHO.
By then his works began to reflect the socio-political problems of the time such as anti-apartheid, AIDS and drugs.
He also created pop-art pieces for brands like Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the charitable album “A Very Special Christmas”, on which his friend Madonna was included.
In 1988 he was included in a select list of artists whose works appeared on the labels of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wines, and in the same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led to the founding of the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting socio-economic problems related to this disease and to promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licenses of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the convent of the Church of Sant’Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo”.
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, victim of AIDS.