Keith Haring - Untitled - Offset lithography - TeNeues licensed print ** NO RESERVE **

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph
Reproduction of the work 'International Youth Year,' a lithograph created by K. Haring in 1989.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Printed on high-quality satin Fine Art cardstock (250g).
Printed authorized by "The State of Keith Haring" in Germany, with copyright seal of the Foundation on the bottom right edge.

Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
Design dimensions: 62 x 46 cm
Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and is therefore in perfect condition).
Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in a reinforced cardboard box. The shipment will be certified 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 Pittsburgh, and at the age of 19, already openly 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 Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color.
Haring captured the public's attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with a marker in the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted comic strips with white chalk on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest.
Her clean lines, vivid colors, and active figures conveyed powerful messages of life and unity, and her exhibitions were filmed by the photographer Tseng Kwong Chi.
Also around this time, she organized an exhibition at Club 57 and participated in a show in Times Square, where she drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazy's 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 Sharf, Madonna, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol.
In 1984, Harin 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 Contemporary Art Center.
He also made visits and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, Minneapolis, and Manhattan.
Even then, I 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 held an exhibition of his work, and he also participated in the Paris Biennial.
He appeared in November of that year on MTV where he painted in a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes from 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 works.
By then, his works began to reflect the socio-political 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 benefit album "A Very Special Christmas," which included his friend Madonna.
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. The following year, he founded the Keith Haring Foundation, whose goal was to combat social issues related to the 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 convent of the Church of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled "Tuttomondo".
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.