Keith Haring - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, November 16, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Exhibited

    San Bernardino, California State University, University Art Gallery, Point of View: Artworks from the Collection of Jeffrey Kerns, 1986

  • Literature

    J. Kerns and M. Kohn, Point of View: Artworks from the Collection of Jeffrey Kerns, exh. cat., California State University, San Bernardino, 1986 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    The drawings I do have very little to do with classical, post Renaissance drawings where you try to imitate life or make it appear to be life-like. My drawings don’t try to imitate life, they try to create life, try to invent life.
    KEITH HARING

    (Keith Haring, from interview with C. Flyman, September 26, 1980, in G. Celant, Keith Haring, Munich, 1992, p. 116).

  • 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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192

Untitled

1982
acrylic on paper
38 x 50 in. (96.5 x 127 cm)
Signed and dated "Sept. 17 - 81, K. Haring" on the reverse.

Estimate
$70,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $140,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

16 November 2012
New York