Keith Haring - Untitled (Pyramid with UFOs) - Artestar licensed print

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled” created by Haring in 1981.
Luxury edition on high-quality Fine Art paper of heavy weight (250 g/m²)
Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation

- Sheet dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
- Motif dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, so it is offered in pristine condition).

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

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 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 drew public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with a marker on the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk outlines 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.

Around this time he also 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 show 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 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, earning money for his work from the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
He also visited Rio de Janeiro, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis, and Manhattan to paint.
During this period he even designed a pink jacket worn by Madonna to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the TV show Solid Gold.

In 1985, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Bordeaux hosted a solo exhibition of his work, and he participated in the Paris Biennale.
In November of that year he appeared on MTV in a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran, where he painted.

In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin, he 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 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, which led him the following year to establish the Keith Haring Foundation, aimed at fighting the social issues related to this disease and promoting 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 passed away on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, from AIDS.