Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - Offset lithography- TeNeues licensed print - 2000

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” serigraphy made by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with a copyright seal of the Foundation on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 54.5 x 43 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Like new (this work has never been framed or displayed, always kept in a professional art folder, thus preserved in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the full 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, already 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 Sonnier and Joseph Kosuth, 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 draw cartoon-like images with markers on the subway in the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk drawings 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 in 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 era 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 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.
Around this time he even 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 hosted an exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
In November of that year he appeared 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 Grace Jones’s 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 reflecting the socio-political issues of the era, such as anti-Apartheid, AIDS, and drugs.
He also created pop art pieces for brands such as 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 on 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, which led to the founding of the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, with the aim of fighting the social problems related to this disease and of 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 San Antonio church monastery in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.