Keith Haring (after) - Untitled - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - TeNeues licensed 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.
Printing 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
- Artwork dimensions: 54.5 x 54.5 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art portfolio, hence offered in excellent condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be traceable with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation 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 years old, openly gay, moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, where he received the influence of 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 the subway cars of the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk drawings on black panels used 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.
Around this time he also 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 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 funding for his work from the National Gallery 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 perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Bordeaux hosted an exhibition of his work, and he also participated in the Paris Biennale.
In November of that year he appeared on MTV, painting in a show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of the band 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 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 included in 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 him to establish the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social issues related to this disease and promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licensing of his art.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Church of San Antonio’s convent in Pisa. This work was entitled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.