Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - Offset lithograph - 80x60- TeNeues licensed print - 2000

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” serigraphy made by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Artwork 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
- Motif dimensions: 54.5 x 43 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Like new (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and therefore kept in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be traceable with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork, 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 an early 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 Sonnler 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 doodle cartoon-like images with marker in New York City subways, and later drew cartoons on white chalk on black panels intended for advertising, which led to several arrests. 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 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 time such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol.
In 1984 Harin 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 Paris Modern Art Museum, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
During this period he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to interpret her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux hosted an exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennial.
He appeared in November 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’ 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 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 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he founded the Keith Haring Foundation aimed at fighting the social issues related to this disease and promoting 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 young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.