Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - Offset lithography- TeNeues licensed print - 2000

Offset lithography by Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” silkscreen print by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printing authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with the Foundation's copyright seal 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, and therefore remains in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be dispatched 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 Pittsburgh, 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 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 New York subways, and then painted with white chalk cartoons on black panels intended 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 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 exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he participated 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, 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 show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held a solo 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 the group Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, 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 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 benefit 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 following year to establish the Keith Haring Foundation, aimed at fighting social problems related to this disease and to publicize 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 Church of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring passed away on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, victim of AIDS.