Keith Haring - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 15, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Blum Helman Gallery, New York
    Willem Peppler, Sweden (acquired in 1984)
    His Sale, Christie’s, Paris, October 29, 2014, lot 37
    Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)
    Christie’s, New York, May 18, 2018, lot 874
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Willem Peppler, A Collector and his Oeuvre, Stockholm, 2008, p. 111 (illustrated, dated 1984)

  • 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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146

Untitled

signed, inscribed, titled and dated "K. Haring MAR.7-83 TOKYO ⨁" on the reverse
Sumi ink on paper
31 1/8 x 43 3/8 in. (79.1 x 110.2 cm)
Executed in 1983.

Estimate
$200,000 - 300,000 

Sold for $190,500

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 November 2023