Keith Haring - Untitled (people ladder) - Giclée - 60x44...

Giclée print of Keith Haring (*) Reproduction of the work “Untitled” (**), created by Haring in 1985. Luxury edition on matte museum-grade digital conservation paper (weight 250 g/m²). A very versatile, high-quality paper, manufactured in Germany from acid- and chlorine-free wood pulp. Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation. Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA). - Sheet dimensions: 60 x 44 cm - Image dimensions: 50 x 34 cm - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been matted or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, thus offered in pristine condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The artwork will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked with a tracking number. The shipment will also include transportation insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. He grew up in Kutztown and from a young age showed a strong interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh, and at 19, already openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts, where he was influenced by Keith Sonnler and Joseph Kossuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color. Haring drew public attention in 1980 when he started drawing cartoon-like images with a marker on New York subway cars, and then painted white chalk cartoons on black panels used for advertising, which led to more than one arrest. His clean lines, vibrant colors, and active figures carried strong messages about life and unity, and his exhibitions were filmed by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Also around this time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57, and participated in a show in Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he participated in the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the time such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol. In 1984 Haring went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and even received financial support for his work from the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Paris Museum of Modern Art, Minneapolis and Manhattan. During this period he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the Solid Gold program. In 1985, the Modern Art Museum in Bordeaux organized an exhibition of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennale. He appeared in November of that year on MTV, where he painted on a program hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran. In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video for the song “I’m Not Perfect,” and opened a shop to sell his works in SOHO. By then, his works began to reflect the socio-political problems of the era such as anti-apartheid, AIDS and drugs. He also created pop art pieces for brands like Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the charitable album “A Very Special Christmas,” on which his friend Madonna was included. In 1988 he was included in a select list of artists whose works appeared on the labels of Château Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, which led the following year to founding the Keith Haring Foundation with the aim of fighting the social issues related to this disease and to promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licensing. In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the convent of the Church of Saint Anthony in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.” Keith Haring passed away on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS. (**) In 1984, Keith Haring produced "Untitled (Staircase of People)," featuring a tower of faceless figures stacked on top of one another. The dynamic composition combines with the kinetic energy created by the small lines that surround the silhouettes of the figures. Haring often depicted figures in interconnected compositions to emphasize the idea that working together can be more powerful than working alone."

Estimación:€150

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