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Keith Haring

Into 84 Exhibition Poster

Estimate
$600 - 900
$4,064
Lot Details
Offset lithograph in colors, on wove paper, with full margins.
1983
I. 33 1/2 x 22 in. (85.1 x 55.9 cm)
S. 35 x 23 in. (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
Signed in silver ink, published by Tony Shafrezi Gallery, New York, for the exhibition Keith Haring: Into 84, December 3, 1983 - January 7, 1984, framed.

Keith Haring

American | B. 1958 D. 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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