Keith Haring - Untitled - TeNeues licensed print - 1987

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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 poster board (250g).
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal from the Foundation in the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
- Year: 1987
- Condition: Very Good (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus preserved in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

The shipment will also include transportation 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 keen interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at 19, 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 to sketch cartoon-like images with markers in New York City subway cars, 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.
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 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 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 held an exhibition 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; 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 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 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 the labels of Château 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 social problems related to this disease and to raise awareness of 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 San Antonio convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the young age of 32 from AIDS.