Keith Haring - Saturday @ Phillips London Friday, March 14, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Villeroy & Boch, Mettlach

  • 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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Coffee service: One setting (16 pieces with serving plate)

1999
Bone china.
Various dimensions. Service plate: 32 cm. (12 2/3 in.) diameter.
Numbered on the certificate of authenticity. This work is from an edition of 500.

Estimate
£1,000 - 1,500 

Sold for £1,125

Saturday @ Phillips

15 Mar 2008, 10am & 2pm
London