Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - Offset lithography- TeNeues licensed print - 2000

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.
Authorized printing by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal of the Foundation on the lower right edge.

- Dimensions of sheet: 80 x 60 cm
- Dimensions of motif: 54.5 x 43 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: Like new (this work has never been framed or displayed, always kept in a professional art folder, thus preserved in pristine condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be traceable with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation 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 an early age showed a strong 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 and enrolled in 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 caught 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 with white chalk cartoons 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 for the first time animals and human faces.
His first solo exhibition 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 day 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 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.
Even at that time he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform 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.
He appeared in November of that year on MTV where he painted on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes, from the group 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 store 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 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 Château Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he inaugurated the Keith Haring Foundation whose objective was to fight social problems related to this disease and to publicize 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 Church of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo”.
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the early age of 32 due to AIDS.