Keith Haring - Untitled (Pyramid with UFOs) - Artestar licensed print

Offset lithography by Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the artwork “Untitled” created by Haring in 1981..
Luxury edition on high-quality Fine Art paper with high grammage (250 g/m²)
Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation

- Sheet dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
- Artwork dimensions: 30 x 30 cm
- Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and is thus offered in pristine condition).

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. Shipping will be tracked with a tracking number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx)

Shipping 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 years old, 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 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 marker in New York City subways, and later painted with white chalk cartoons on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him several arrests. 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 that time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57 and participated in a show in Times Square, where he drew, for the first time, animals and human faces.
His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in the Documenta 7 exhibition 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 Harin went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and even received payment for his work from the National Gallery Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art.
He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to interpret her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “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.
In November of that year he appeared 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, 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 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 benefit 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 Château Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led him to inaugurate the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, with the goal of fighting social problems related to this disease and promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licenses of his work.
In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the convent of the Church of Saint Anthony in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo”.
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the young age of 32 from AIDS.