Keith Haring - New Now New York Wednesday, September 26, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
    Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)
    Bonhams, New York, November 12, 2013, lot 125
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Paris, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Keith Haring: 12 Sculptures, June 4 - July 23, 1999, p. 25 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Emily Ligniti, ed., Keith Haring: Sculptures, Paintings and Works on Paper, Milan, 2005, p. 23 (illustrated)

  • 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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Untitled (Study for Dusseldorf Sculptures)

signed, inscribed, titled and dated "MARCH 20 1987 - KO STUDIO K. Haring DUSSELDORF SCULPTURES" lower edge
graphite on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1987.

Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

Sold for $30,000

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New York Auction 26 September 2018