Keith Haring - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, June 7, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sotheby's London, Old Master, Modern & Contemporary Prints, 19 March 2013, lot 148
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Klaus Littmann p. 82

  • 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 I: one plate (L. p. 82)

1987
Screenprint in colours, on Coventry Rag paper, with full margins.
I. 27 x 34.3 cm (10 5/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
S. 30.7 x 38.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 in.)

Signed, dated and numbered 'AP 18/30' in pencil (an artist's proof, the edition was 200), published by the artist, framed.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for £21,590

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 7 - 8 June 2023