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

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled,” screen print made by K. Haring in 1989. Printed on thick Fine Art cardboard. 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 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 packaging. Shipping will be tracked 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 strong interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at 19, openly gay, he 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 Sonnner 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 doodling cartoon-like images with markers on the New York subway, and then drew white chalk comics on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest. His clean lines, bright 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 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 visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Paris Modern Art Museum, 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 in Bordeaux held a show of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale. In November of that year he appeared on MTV where he painted in 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 shop to sell his works in SOHO. By then, his works began to reflect the sociopolitical problems of the era 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 charitable 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 Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and in the same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led the following year to inaugurate the Keith Haring Foundation, whose aim was to combat the 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 San Antonio Church convent in Pisa. This work was entitled “Tuttomondo.” Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990 at the early age of 32 from AIDS.

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