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Keith Haring
Untitled (Pop Shop Tokyo, Rice Bowl)
- Estimate
- £2,000 - 3,000
£11,250
Lot Details
Unique ceramic bowl painted in dark teal with glaze,
1987
6 x 13 x 13 cm (2 3/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
signed and dated '87' in dark teal on the underside, from the series of unknown size each hand-painted by the artist in a unique design, produced for the opening of Keith Haring's Tokyo based Pop Shop.
Specialist
Keith Haring
American | B. 1958 D. 1990Haring's art and life typified youthful exuberance and fearlessness. While seemingly playful and transparent, Haring dealt with weighty subjects such as death, sex and war, enabling subtle and multiple interpretations.
Throughout his tragically brief career, Haring refined a visual language of symbols, which he called icons, the origins of which began with his trademark linear style scrawled in white chalk on the black unused advertising spaces in subway stations. Haring developed and disseminated these icons far and wide, in his vibrant and dynamic style, from public murals and paintings to t-shirts and Swatch watches. His art bridged high and low, erasing the distinctions between rarefied art, political activism and popular culture.
Browse ArtistThroughout his tragically brief career, Haring refined a visual language of symbols, which he called icons, the origins of which began with his trademark linear style scrawled in white chalk on the black unused advertising spaces in subway stations. Haring developed and disseminated these icons far and wide, in his vibrant and dynamic style, from public murals and paintings to t-shirts and Swatch watches. His art bridged high and low, erasing the distinctions between rarefied art, political activism and popular culture.