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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auctions 21 April 2015 

  • 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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Keith Haring

Silence = Death

1989
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins,
I. 32 7/8 x 32 7/8 in. (83.5 x 83.5 cm)
S. 38 3/4 x 38 3/4 in. (98.4 x 98.4 cm)
signed, dated `89' and numbered 51/200 in pencil (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by the Outreach Fund for AIDS, laid down to foamcore, framed.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $22,500

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auctions 21 April 2015