Keith Haring - Monkey Puzzle - Offset lithography- TeNeues licensed

Keith Haring Offset Lithography (*) Reproduction of the work “Monkey Puzzle,” serigraphy made by K. Haring in 1988. Published by teNeues Publishing Company, New York. Authorized printing by “The State of Keith Haring” in Germany, with copyright seal of the Foundation on the lower right edge. - Sheet dimensions: 80 x 60 cm - Motif dimensions: 54.5 x 43 cm - Year: 2000 - Condition: Like new (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always kept in a professional art folder, and therefore remains in immaculate condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be handled and packed carefully in reinforced cardboard packaging. The shipment will be tracked and insured with a tracking number. The shipment will also include transport insurance for the final value of the work 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 Pittsburg, and at 19 years old, 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 received the influence of 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 began to doodle cartoon-like images with marker in the city’s subway cars, and later drew with white chalks cartoons on black panels intended for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest. His clean lines, vivid 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 for the first time he drew animals and human faces. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he took part in the Documenta 7 exhibition in Kassel, Germany. In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the era 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 money 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 Musée d’Art Moderne, Minneapolis and Manhattan. Even in this period he designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the program “Solid Gold.” In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held a retrospective of his work, and he also took part in the Paris Biennial. 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 issues of the time 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 charity album “A Very Special Christmas,” in which his friend Madonna was included. In 1988 he was included in a select list of artists whose works appeared on the labels of Chateau Mouton Rothschild wines, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he inaugurated the Keith Haring Foundation, whose goal was to combat social problems related to the disease and to disseminate the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications and licenses of his work. In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall of the Church of San Antonio in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.” Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the early age of 32, a victim of AIDS.

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