Keith Haring - Evening & Day Editions London Monday, June 14, 2021 | Phillips

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  • Literature

    Klaus Littmann pp. 170-171

  • 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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Icons: one plate (L. 170-171)

1990
Screenprint in colours with embossing, on Arches Cover paper, the full sheet.
S. 53.5 x 63.6 cm (21 1/8 x 25 in.)
Signed, dated '6/28/90' and numbered 181/250 by Julia Gruen (Executor for the Keith Haring Estate) in pencil on the Estate stamp on the reverse (there were also 25 artist's proofs), published by Tony Shafrazi Editions, New York, unframed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £10,710

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14 - 15 June 2021