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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019

  • Literature

    Klaus Littmann, pp. 60-61
    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 373

  • 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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Keith Haring

Portrait of Joseph Beuys, from For Joseph Beuys

1986-87
Screenprint in brown, on canvas.
S. 79.5 x 60 cm (31 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.)
Signed and dated in black felt-tip pen (a proof aside from the edition of 90 and 6 artist's proofs), co-published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, and Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, framed.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £4,750

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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019