Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - TeNeues licensed offset print

Offset lithography by Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle”, silkscreen made by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with 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 exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus preserved in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

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 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 in the School of Visual Arts where he received influence from 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 draw cartoon-like images with markers on New York City subway cars, and later painted comics with white chalk 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 for the first time 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 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.
Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to interpret her song “Like a Virgin” on the TV show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held 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 show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes, of the group Duran Duran.
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 such as 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 on a select list of artists whose works appeared on Château Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and in the same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he inaugurated the Keith Haring Foundation whose goal was to combat the social problems related to this disease and to bring the artist’s work to the public through exhibitions, publications and licenses of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Church of Saint Anthony in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.