Keith Haring - Untitled - TeNeues licensed print - 1987

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Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” ink on paper by K. Haring in 1987.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high‑grade satin Fine Art cardstock (250 g).
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal from the Foundation on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Motif dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
- Year: 1987
- Condition: Very Good (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. Shipping will be insured with a tracking number.

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 a young age showed a strong interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at 19, openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, where he was influenced by Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to pursue art as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring drew public attention in 1980 when he began creating cartoon-like images with marker in the New York City subways, and later painted white chalk drawings on black advertising panels, which earned him several arrests. His clean lines, bright colors, and dynamic figures carried strong messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi.
Around this time he also 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 participated in the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel, Germany.
In 1982 he befriended rising artists of the era like 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 funding 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 Paris Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis, and Manhattan.
During this period he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985 the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux hosted a retrospective of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
He appeared in November of that year on MTV, painting on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin, also painted the body of Grace Jones 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 issues of the era, 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,” 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 Château Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led to the founding of the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social issues related to the disease and raising awareness of the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licensing of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on the wall of the Monastery of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring passed away on February 16, 1990, at the age of 32, a victim of AIDS.