Keith Haring - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 6, 2018 | Phillips

Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 7 June 2018

  • Literature

    Klaus Littmann, p. 42
    Edition Schellmann, p. 142

  • 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, from Free South Africa

1985
Lithograph in black and red, on BFK Rives paper, with full margins.
I. 77 x 96.1 cm (30 3/8 x 37 7/8 in.)
S. 80.6 x 100 cm (31 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 35/60 in pencil (there were also 15 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, framed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 †

Sold for £11,250

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 7 June 2018