Keith Haring - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 16, 2014 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Gallery 121, Antwerp
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989

  • Exhibited

    Antwerp, Gallery 121, Keith Haring, July - August, 1989

  • Artist Biography

    Keith Haring

    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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Untitled

1987
Sumi ink on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Signed, inscribed and dated "Jun 25 - 87 © K Haring KNOKKE" on the reverse.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $81,250

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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 16 May 2014 11am