Keith Haring - Untitled - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - TeNeues licensed print - 1987

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” ink on paper by K. Haring in 1987.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high-gloss Fine Art card stock (250 g).
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with foundation copyright seal on the lower right edge.

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- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
- Year: 1987
- Condition: Very Good (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus maintaining its pristine state).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be tracked 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, 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 sketching cartoon-like images with marker on the subway trains of the Big Apple, and later drew black-and-white comics on advertising panels with chalk, 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 organized an exhibition at Club 57, and participated in a show at Times Square where he drew animals and human faces for the first time.
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 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 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 TV show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held a retrospective of his work, and he also participated 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 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 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 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 the labels of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wines, and in the same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, leading to the establishment the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social issues related to the disease and promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licenses.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Church of Sant’Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, from AIDS.