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

Offset lithography of Keith Haring (*)
Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle”, serigraph printed by K. Haring in 1988.
Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York.
Authorized print by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with foundation copyright seal in the bottom right edge.

- Sheet 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 stored in a professional art folder, hence kept in immaculate condition).
- Provenance: Private collection.

The work will be carefully handled and packed in a reinforced cardboard package. Shipping will be insured 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 19, already openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts where he was influenced by Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kosuth, 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 marker in the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted white chalk cartoons on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest.
His clean lines, vibrant 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 participated in a show in 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 took part 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 Paris Musée d’Art Moderne, Minneapolis and Manhattan.
In this period he even 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 organized a retrospective of his work, and he also participated in the Paris Biennale.
In November of that year he appeared on MTV, painting in a show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.
In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’s 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 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 charity 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 Château Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he inaugurated the Keith Haring Foundation whose goal was to combat social problems related to this disease and to publicize 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 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.