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 with a high grammage (250 g/m²)
Printing authorized by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation

- Sheet dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
- Image dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in pristine condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be sent with a tracking number (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, moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled in 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 drew public attention in 1980 when he started drawing cartoon-like images with markers on the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk comics on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vivid colors, and active figures carried strong life and unity messages 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 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 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 Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
During this period 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 held an exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
He appeared in November 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’s body for her music video “I’m Not Perfect,” and opened a shop to sell his work in SOHO.
By then his works began reflecting 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 in a select list of artists whose works appeared on Château Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led to the opening of the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social issues related to this disease and 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 Convent 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.