Keith Haring - Evening & Day Editions New York Monday, October 26, 2015 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015

  • Literature

    Klaus Littmann pp. 106

  • 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

Apocalypse: one plate

1988
Screenprint in colors, on Museum Board, the full sheet,
S. 38 x 38 in. (96.5 x 96.5 cm)
signed, dated `88' and numbered `HC 4/5' in pencil (an hors commerce, the edition was 90 and 20 artist's proofs), published by George Mulder Fine Arts, New York (with their copyright inkstamp), unframed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,000

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Evening & Day Editions

New York Auction 26 October 2015