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Keith Haring
KNOKKE Casino Poster
- Estimate
- HK$50,000 - 70,000€5,700 - 8,000$6,400 - 9,000
HK$275,000
Lot Details
felt pen on offset lithograph poster
signed 'K. Haring' vertical right
72 x 53 cm. (28 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
Executed in 1987, this work is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity issued by the Galleria Grafica Tokio.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
The present lot features an additional hand drawing by the artist in his one-man exhibition poster at Knokke Casino, Belgium in 1987.
Provenance
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Keith Haring
American | B. 1958 D. 1990Haring'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.
Browse ArtistThroughout 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.