Keith Haring - Untitled - TeNeues licensed print - 1987

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” ink on paper by K. Haring in 1987.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high-quality 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.

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- 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 stored in a professional art folder, thus preserved in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be shipped 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 great interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, and at 19, having openly declared he was gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, where he received the influence of Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring captured public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with a marker on the subway cars 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 took part 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 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 Paris Modern Art Museum, 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 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 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 work began to reflect the socio-political issues 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 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 him to inaugurate the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social issues related to this disease and at 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 a wall of the Convento di San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32 from AIDS.