Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - TeNeues licensed offset print

Offset λιθογραφία του Keith Haring (*)
Αναπαραγωγή του έργου «Monkey Puzzle», σφραγισμένη στο κατάστημά του από τον K. Haring το 1988.
Εκδόθηκε από την teNeues Publishing Company, Νέα Υόρκη.
Έγκριση εκτύπωσης από το «The State of Keith Haring» στη Γερμανία, με ερυθρά σήματα πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων στο περιθώριο δεξιά κάτω.

- Διαστάσεις φύλλου: 80 x 60 cm
- Διαστάσεις θέματος: 54,5 x 43 cm
- Έτος: 2000
- Κατάσταση: Καινούργιο (αυτό το έργο ποτέ δεν έχει ήγειρθεί σε κορνίζα ούτε εκτεθεί, πάντοτε διατηρείται σε επαγγελματικό φάκελο τέχνης, οπότε διατηρείται σε άψογη κατάσταση).
- Προέλευση: Ιδιωτική συλλογή.

Το έργο θα χειριστείται και θα πακεταριστεί με προσεκτικότητα σε πακέτο από ενισχυμένο χαρτόνι. Η αποστολή θα γίνεται με πιστοποιημένο αριθμό εποπτείας.

Η αποστολή θα περιλαμβάνει επιπλέον ασφάλεια μεταφοράς με την αξία του τελικού έργου, πλήρη αποκατάσταση σε περίπτωση απώλειας ή βλάβης, χωρίς κόστος για τον αγοραστή.

(*) Ο Keith Haring γεννήθηκε το 1958 στο Reading, Πενσυλβάνια, Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες. grew up in Kutztown and from a young age showed a keen interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburg, and at 19, 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 drew public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with marker in the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted 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 for the first time drew animals and human faces. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazy 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 Sharf, 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 of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.

He also visited 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 took part in the Paris Biennale.

He appeared in November of that year on MTV where he painted on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes, of the group Duran Duran.

In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’ body for her music video for 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 charity album “A Very Special Christmas”, in 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, so the following year he inaugurated the Keith Haring Foundation whose aim was to combat the social problems related to this disease and to raise awareness of 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 Saint Anthony in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo”.

Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the early age of 32, victim of AIDS.