Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 17 May 2007, lot 400
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2015, lot 230
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; Malmö Konsthall; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Madrid, Fundacion "la Caixa," Keith Haring, February 1994 - July 1995, cat. no. 88, p. 154, (illustrated)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Keith Haring, June - September 1997, p. 184 (illustrated)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Keith Haring, The Political Line, 19 April - 18 August 2013, no. 169, p. 246 (illustrated)
Germano Celant, Keith Haring, Munich, 1992, pl. 74 (illustrated)
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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