Keith Haring (after) - Untitled - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - TeNeues lithographic print

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” screen print made by K. Haring in 1989.
Printed on thick Fine Art board.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Authorized printing by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with Foundation copyright seal on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 54.5 x 54.5 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been matted or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in excellent condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. 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 Pittsburg, and at age 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 drawing cartoon-like images with markers on New York subway cars, and then painted white chalk drawings 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 the same time, he 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 show was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in Documenta 7 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 de Paris, Minneapolis, and Manhattan.
Even at this time, he designed a pink jacket worn by Madonna to interpret her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux organized 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 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 problems 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 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led to the founding of the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting issues related to the disease and increasing awareness of the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licensing of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on the wall of the San Antonio Church in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.