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

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*)
Reproduction of the work “International Youth Year,” lithograph made by K. Haring in 1985.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high–grade satin Fine Art cardboard (250 g).
Authorized print by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal from the Foundation on the lower right edge.

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- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Motif dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
- Year: 1985
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept 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 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, 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 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 in New York City subway cars, and then painted white chalk drawings on black panels intended 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 drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo show was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he participated 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 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 program “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 on a show 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 reflecting 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,” in 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 inaugurate the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, aimed at fighting social problems 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 San Antonio Church convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32, a victim of AIDS.