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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023

  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 142
    Klaus Littmann pp. 42-43

  • 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

Untitled (Free South Africa): one plate (S. p. 142, L. pp. 42-43)

1985
Lithograph in colors, on Rives BFK paper, with full margins.
I. 30 1/4 x 37 5/8 in. (76.8 x 95.6 cm)
S. 31 7/8 x 39 1/2 in. (81 x 100.2 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 37/60 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, unframed.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $25,400

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 21 June 2023