Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Frederik Roos, Zug, 1983
AB Stockholms Auktionsverk, Stockholm, June 2, 1994, lot 7118
Private collection, United States
Christie's, New York, November 16, 2000, lot 41
Private collection, Geneva
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, November 14, 2017, lot 11B
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Champions, January 1983, pp. 49 and 71 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Keith Haring, March-May 1986, pp. 24 and 78 (illustrated in color).
Milan, Fondazione Triennale di Milano, The Keith Haring Show, September 2005-January 2006, p. 171, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, June-September 2007, pp. 58-59 and 212 (illustrated in color).
American • 1958 - 1990
Haring'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.
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