Keith Haring - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm

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    Klaus Littmann p. 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 7, from Apocalypse series

1988
Screenprint in colours, on wove paper, the full sheet,
S. 96.2 x 96.2 cm (37 7/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
signed, dated '88' and annotated HC 3/5 in pencil (an hors commerce impression, the edition was 90), published by George Mulder, New York (with their copyright stamp on the reverse), in very good condition, framed.

Estimate
£2,500 - 3,500 

Sold for £3,250

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Evening & Day Editions

London 12 December 2013 2pm & 6pm