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

Offset lithography of Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle”, serigraph produced by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Print authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal of the Foundation on the lower right edge.

- Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
- Artwork dimensions: 54.5 x 43 cm
- Year: 2000
- Condition: As new (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, and therefore preserved in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The artwork will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard parcel. The shipment will be certified with a tracking number.

The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the artwork 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 since childhood showed a great interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, in Pittsburg, and at the age of 19, already openly gay, 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 drawing cartoon-like images with markers in the subways of the Big Apple, and then painted white chalk drawings 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.
Around the same time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57 and took part 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 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 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 National d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold”.
In 1985, the Musée National d’Art Moderne à Bordeaux held a solo 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 the group Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted the body of Grace Jones 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 such as Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the charity 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, so the following year he founded the Keith Haring Foundation whose objective was to fight social problems related to this disease and to promote 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 Chapel of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo”.
Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the age of 32, a victim of AIDS.