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

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” screen print produced by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with the Foundation’s copyright seal on the bottom right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Motif 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 thus remains in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be insured 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 strong 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 Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring attracted public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with marker in the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted with white chalks comic strips 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 participated 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, even receiving 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 Museum of Modern Art in 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 Biennial.
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 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 charity album “A Very Special Christmas,” in which his friend Madonna was included.
In 1988 he was listed among a select group of artists whose works appeared on the labels of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he founded the Keith Haring Foundation with the aim of fighting the social issues related to the disease and to publicize the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licensing of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the San Antonio Church’s convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.