Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - TeNeues licensed offset print

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

- Paper dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Motif 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 in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard. 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 Pittsburg, 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 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 attracted public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with markers on 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.
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 at Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time.
His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi 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 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 Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
During this period, he designed a pink jacket worn by Madonna to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold”.
In 1985, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Bordeaux held 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 Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’ body for her music video of 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 issues 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 charitable album “A Very Special Christmas”, in 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, which led to the founding the Keith Haring Foundation the following year, with the aim of fighting the social issues related to this disease and to raise awareness of 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 Antony in Pisa. This work was entitled “Tuttomondo”.
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the early age of 32 from AIDS.