Keith Haring - International Youth Year - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - TeNeues licensed print 1985

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*)
Reproduction of the work “International Youth Year,” lithograph made by K. Haring in 1985.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on satin Fine Art heavyweight card stock (250 g).
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal from the Foundation in the lower right edge.

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- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
- Year: 1985
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and is offered in perfect 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 showed a strong interest in art from a young age. 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 received influence from 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 sketching cartoon-like images with markers on the subway in the Big Apple, and then painted with white chalks comic strips 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.
Also around this time, he 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 participated in Documenta 7 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 funding 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 perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held a retrospective of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
He appeared in November of that year on MTV, where he painted in a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin, 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 problems 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 on 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, which led him to establish the Keith Haring Foundation the following year to combat social problems related to this disease and to promote the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licenses.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Convento di San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the young age of 32 from AIDS.