Keith Haring - Growing 3 - Giclée - Artestar licensed print - COA

Giclée Reproduction (*) of Keith Haring (**)
Reproduction of the work “Growing 3” created by Haring in 1988.
Lux edition on conservation matte 250 g/m² digital paper. A very versatile, high-quality paper manufactured in Germany from acid- and chlorine-free wood pulp.
Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation.
Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA).

- Sheet dimensions: 60 x 48 cm
- Motif dimensions: 50 x 38 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be trackable (UPS DPD DHL FedEx).

The shipping 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 purchaser.

(*) Giclée is a term referring to a high-quality fine art printing process, digitally produced with inkjet printers. This process uses pigment-based inks and specialized papers to achieve sharpness, color accuracy, and durability, ideal for art and photograph reproductions.

(**) 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 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 markers in the subways of the Big Apple, and then painted comics with white chalk on black panels intended 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.
Around this time he organized an exhibition at Club 57, and participated in a show in Times Square, where he first drew animals and human faces.
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 time 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 Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to interpret her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux organized a retrospective of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennial.
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’ 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 works 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 charity 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 founded the Keith Haring Foundation whose goal was to combat the social problems related to this disease and to publicize 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 San Antonio church convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the age of 32, a victim of AIDS.

(**) Of epic scale and ambition, The Tree of Life (1985) was created at the height of the tragically short but intensely dynamic life and career of Keith Haring. At over three and a half meters tall, The Tree of Life takes on nearly biblical proportions in its portrayal of this fantastical scene. A fusion of punk and pop, Haring injects contemporary energy into this decidedly urban celebration that fuses established religious themes and historical references from traditional art with his distinctive culture of modern street art. Sprouting from the swirling branches, a plethora of life explodes in the form of dancing bodies, like an explosion of knowledge. Under the tree, four yellow-spotted fully formed figures stand in exaltation. With economical line work, the green branches, as bright as daylight, seem to vibrate against the fuchsia in a carnival of rhythmic patterns. “Look, when I paint, it’s an experience that, at its best, transcends reality,” Haring said, explaining that this dimension was also reflected in his mental state while working. “When it works, you’re transported somewhere else, you connect with things totally universal, of total consciousness, completely beyond your ego and your own being. That’s what it’s about” (K. Haring, quoted in D. Sheff, “Keith Haring: An Intimate Conversation,” in Rolling Stone, August 1989, reproduced on www.haring.com [accessed May 25, 2014]). “The Tree of Life” has been exhibited at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, the Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Milan Triennale in Milan, and Dexia Banque Internationale de Luxembourg.