Keith Haring - Untitled - TeNeues licensed print - 1987

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled”, ink on paper by K. Haring in 1987.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high-grade satin Fine Art cardboard (250 g).
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
- Motif 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 pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

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

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 in the School of Visual Arts where he received the influence of Keith Sonnier and Joseph Kosuth, 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 the subways of the Big Apple, and then painted with white chalks comic strips on the black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vivid colors and active figures carried strong messages of 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 Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
Even at this time he 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 of that year on MTV where he painted on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted the body of Grace Jones 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 Château Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led him to establish the Keith Haring Foundation the following year aimed at fighting social problems related to this disease and at making the artist’s work known 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 early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.