Keith Haring - Keith Haring: Falling UP Hong Kong Saturday, October 17, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Meals on Wheels, New York (directly from the artist)
    Trudy Liuzzo, Westchester
    Christie’s, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 518
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Leila Heller Gallery, Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, May - August 2014, p. 74 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    L. Land, "Alas, Mom's Meat Loaf Was No Match For The Prize-winning Variety", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 8 November 1987

  • 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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Meatloaf Drawing for Meals on Wheels

signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'MEATLOAF DRAWING AUGUST 24 1987 © K. Haring FOR MEALS ON WHEELS-' to the lower edge
gouache and ink on paper
76.8 x 104.5 cm (30 1/4 x 41 1/8 in.)
Executed in 1987.

Estimate
HK$1,674,000 - 1,674,000 
€183,000-183,000
$215,000-215,000

Keith Haring: Falling UP