Keith Haring (after) - Untitled - Offset lithograph...

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Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” silkscreen produced by K. Haring in 1989. Printed on thick Fine Art cardstock. Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York. Printing authorized by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal from the Foundation on the bottom right edge. - Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm - Image dimensions: 54.5 x 54.5 cm - Year: 2000 - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, therefore offered in excellent condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. The shipment will be tracked with a certification 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 a young age showed a strong 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 in the School of Visual Arts, where he was influenced by Keith Sonnier and Joseph Kosuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color. Haring drew public attention in 1980 when he began doodling cartoon-like images with markers on the subways of the Big Apple, and later painted with white chalks comic strips on black panels used 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 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 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 made visits and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Minneapolis and Manhattan. During 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 Modern Art Museum of Bordeaux staged 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 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 “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 era 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,” on which his friend Madonna was featured. 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 him to establish the Keith Haring Foundation in the following year, aiming to combat social issues 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 Convent of the Church of Saint Anthony in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.” Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.

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