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

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” screen print made by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal of the Foundation on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Subject dimensions: 54.5 x 43 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Like new (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, thus preserved in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be sent with trackable certified delivery.

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, 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 sketch cartoon-like images with markers in the New York subway, and later painted white chalk on black panels used for advertising, which led to several arrests. His clean lines, vibrant colors, and active figures carried strong messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were filmed by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi.
Around the same period, 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 Shafrazy Gallery in 1981, the same year he contributed to 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 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 perform 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 in a program 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 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 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 opened the Keith Haring Foundation, whose purpose was to fight the social problems related to this disease and to promote the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licensing of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the San Antonio Church convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.