Keith Haring - Editions & Works on Paper New York Friday, July 24, 2020 | Phillips
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    Klaus Littmann p. 143

  • 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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Pop Shop V: one plate

1989/1994
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
I. 11 3/8 x 14 1/2 in. (28.9 x 36.8 cm)
S. 13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (34.3 x 41.9 cm)

Signed by Julia Gruen (Executor for the Keith Haring Estate), dated '3/25/94' and numbered 181/200 in pencil on the Estate Stamp on the reverse, published by Martin Lawrence Limited Editions, New York, with an Iguana blindstamp, framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $11,875

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