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

    Acquired directly from the artist
    Collection of Yves Arman, Monaco, 1988
    Charly Bailly Fine Art, Geneva
    Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
    Private Collection

  • 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

1988
ink, gouache on paper
42 3/4 x 28 15/16 in. (108.5 x 73.5 cm.)
Signed and dated "K. Haring © aug 31.88 MC" lower right.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $68,750

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Amanda Stoffel
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Contemporary Art Day Sale

New York 16 May 2014 11am