Keith Haring (after) - Untitled - Offset lithography - TeNeues lithographic print

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” screen print made by K. Haring in 1989.
Printed on thick Fine Art board.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed with the authorization of “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with the Foundation’s copyright seal on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 54.5 x 54.5 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is offered in excellent condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation 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 great interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at age 19, openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, where he was influenced by 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 to sketch cartoon-like images with markers on the New York subway, and later white-chalked comic strips on black panels used for advertising, which led to 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 in Times Square where he drew for the first time animals and human faces. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazy Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.
In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the era such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol.
In 1984 Harin went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and even received payment 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.
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 organized an exhibition of his work, and he participated in the Paris Biennale.
He appeared in November of that year on MTV, where he painted on a show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video “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,” 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 that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he opened the Keith Haring Foundation aimed at fighting social issues related to this disease and promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licensing.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the convent church of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, from AIDS.