Keith Haring - Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale New York Thursday, March 6, 2014 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Deitch Projects, New York

  • 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 (Figure on a Baby)

1987
polyurethane enamel on aluminum

24 x 17 x 14 in. (61 x 43.2 x 35.6 cm.)
Stamped, signed, numbered and dated "K. Haring 1987 4/10" on the figure. This work is number 4 from an edition of 10.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

Sold for $167,000

Contact Specialist
Zach Miner, Contemporary
Head of Sale zminer@phillips.com
+1 212 940 1256

Alex Heminway, Design
aheminway@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1268

Contemporary Art & Design Evening Sale

New York Evening Sale 6 March 2014 7pm