• Technical

Colour print on paper, signed in the plate. Blind stamp of the Keith Haring Foundation in the lower left corner.

Framing to be chosen.

Dimensions (excluding frame): 50 x 70 cm

Artwork delivered with a certificate of authenticity.

• Artist biography

Keith Haring, born May 4, 1958, is an American cartoonist considered an iconic figure of contemporary art and Pop Art.

At the end of his secondary studies in 1976, Haring enrolled at the Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburgh. He quickly realized that he had little interest in a career as a graphic designer in advertising and, after two semesters, dropped out.

That same year, Haring moved to New York City and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts (SVA). In New York, Haring found a thriving alternative art community developing outside the gallery and museum system, in the streets, the subway, clubs, and former dance halls. There, he befriended fellow artists Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as performance artists and graffiti artists. Haring was swept up by the energy and spirit of this scene and participated in exhibitions and performances at Club 57 and other alternative venues.
He experimented with performance, video, installation, and collage, while always maintaining a strong commitment to drawing. In 1980, Haring found a highly effective means of communication that allowed him to reach a wider audience. He began drawing with white chalk on advertising panels covered with black paper throughout the subway. Between 1980 and 1985, Haring produced hundreds of these public drawings, sometimes creating as many as forty "subway drawings" in a single day. The subway became, as Haring put it, a "laboratory" for developing his ideas and experimenting with his simple lines.

During his brief but intense career, which spanned the 1980s, Haring's work was featured in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. By expressing universal concepts such as birth, death, love, sex, and war, and by using the primacy of line and the directness of the message, Haring was able to attract a wide audience and ensure the accessibility and enduring nature of his imagery, which has become a universally recognized visual language of the 20th century.

PAST EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2011: "Hieroglyphs, by Keith Haring", Musée en Herbe, Paris
2012: POP ART 1970's to 1990's, Paris
2013: “Keith Haring: The Political Line”, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris
2014: Keith Haring, Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, Oct - Nov
2017 - 2018: “Keith Haring. About Art", Royal Palace, Milan.
2018-2019: “Warhol and Friends”, Palazzo Albergati, Bologna
2019-2020: "Keith Haring", BOZAR, Brussels