Keith Haring (after) - Untitled - Offset lithograph - 80x60 - TeNeues licensed print

Keith Haring offset lithograph (*）
Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” a screenprint created by K. Haring in 1989.
Printed on thick Fine Art cardstock.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Authorized printing by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with the Foundation’s copyright seal in the lower-right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Image dimensions: 54.5 x 54.5 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or displayed and has always been kept in a professional art portfolio, so it is offered in excellent condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be insured and include a tracking number.

Shipping will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work, with a full refund in the event 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 an early age. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, and at the age of 19, having already come out as gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts. There, he was influenced by Keith Sonnier and Joseph Kosuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist through experimentation with form and color.
Haring first attracted public attention in 1980, when he began drawing cartoon-like images with a marker in the New York City subway, and later used white chalk to draw comic strips on the black panels intended for advertising, earning him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vivid colors, and dynamic figures conveyed powerful messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi.
Around this time, he also organized an exhibition at Club 57 and took part in a show in Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo exhibition was held at Tony Shafrazy Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany.
In 1982, he became friends with 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 was even paid for his work by the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, in Minneapolis, and in Manhattan.
Around this time, he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore while performing her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold.”
In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held an exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale.
That November, he appeared on MTV, painting on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of the group Duran Duran.
In 1986, he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin. He also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video for the song “I’m Not Perfect” and opened a store in SOHO to sell his work.
By then, his works had begun to reflect the sociopolitical issues of the time, such as anti-apartheid, AIDS, and drugs.
He also created pop art pieces for brands such as Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike, and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the charity album “A Very Special Christmas,” which featured his friend Madonna.
In 1988, he was included on a select list of artists whose work appeared on the labels of Château Mouton Rothschild wines. That same year, he was diagnosed with AIDS, and the following year he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose aim was to fight social issues related to the disease and to bring the artist’s work to the public through exhibitions, publications, and licensing of his work.
In June 1989, he painted his last public work on a wall of the convent of the Church of Sant’Antonio in Pisa. The work was titled “Tuttomondo.”
Keith Haring died of AIDS on February 16, 1990, at the young age of 32.