Keith Haring - Untitled (Tree of Life) - Artestar licensed print - 62x52 - COA

Keith Haring Offset Lithograph (*) Reproduction of the work “Tree of Life,” acrylic on canvas created by Haring in 1985. Luxurious edition on high-weight matte conservation digital paper (250 g/m²). Authorized print by Artestar New York. Copyright: Keith Haring Foundation. Includes Certificate of Authenticity (COA). - Sheet dimensions: 52 x 62 cm - Motif dimensions: 40 x 50 cm - Condition: Excellent (this work has never been framed or exhibited, always stored in a professional art folder, therefore offered in pristine condition). - Provenance: Private collection. The work will be carefully handled and packaged in reinforced cardboard. Shipping will be tracked with a shipment number (UPS DPD DHL FedEx). Shipping will also include transport insurance for the final value of the artwork with full reimbursement in case of loss or damage, at no cost to the buyer. (*) Keith Haring was born in 1958 in Reading, Pennsylvania, United States. He grew up in Kutztown and from a young age showed a great interest in art. He studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art in Pittsburg, and at 19, openly gay, he moved to New York, where he found inspiration in graffiti art and enrolled in the School of Visual Arts where he was influenced by Keith Sonnier and Joseph Kosuth, who encouraged him to train as a conceptual artist after experimenting with form and color. Haring drew public attention in 1980 when he began drawing cartoon-like images with markers on New York subway cars, and later painted white chalk cartoons on the black panels used for advertising, which earned him more than one arrest. His clean lines, vibrant colors, and active figures carried strong messages of life and unity, and his exhibitions were filmed by photographer Tseng Kwong Chi. Also around this time, he organized an exhibition at Club 57, and took part in a show in Times Square, where he drew animals and human faces for the first time. His first solo exhibition was at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in 1981, the same year he participated in Documenta 7 in Kassel, Germany. In 1982 he befriended emerging artists of the time such as Kenny Scharf, Madonna, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and even met the famous Andy Warhol. In 1984 Haring went to Australia and painted several murals in Melbourne and Sydney, and received money for his work from the National Gallery of Victoria and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art. He also visited and painted in Rio de Janeiro, the Paris Modern Art Museum, Minneapolis, and Manhattan. During this period he even designed a pink jacket that Madonna wore to perform her song “Like a Virgin” on the show “Solid Gold.” In 1985, the Museum of Modern Art in Bordeaux held an exhibition of his work, and he also participated in the Paris Biennale. He appeared in November that year on MTV where he painted on a show hosted by his friend Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran. In 1986 he painted murals in Amsterdam, Paris, Phoenix, and Berlin, also painted Grace Jones’s body for her music video for the song “I’m Not Perfect,” and opened a shop to sell his works in SOHO. By then, his works began to reflect the socio-political problems of the era such as anti-Apartheid, AIDS, and drugs. He also created pop art pieces for brands like Absolut Vodka, Lucky Strike, and Coca-Cola, and even designed the cover of the benefit album “A Very Special Christmas,” on which his friend Madonna was included. In 1988 he was included in a select list of artists whose works appeared on Chateau Mouton Rothschild wine labels, and that same year he was diagnosed with AIDS, so the following year he founded the Keith Haring Foundation aimed at fighting social issues related to the disease and promoting the artist’s work through exhibitions, publications, and licensing. In June 1989 he painted his last public work on a wall in the San Antonio Church convent in Pisa. This work was titled “Tuttomondo.” Keith Haring died on February 16, 1990, at the age of 32, a victim of AIDS. (**) Of epic scale and ambition, Tree of Life (1985) was created at the peak of the tragically short but intensely dynamic life and career of Keith Haring. At more than three and a half meters tall, Tree of Life assumes almost biblical proportions in its depiction of this fantastical scene. A fusion of punk and pop, Haring injects contemporary energy into this decidedly urban celebration that fuses established religious themes with historical references to traditional art with his distinctive culture of modern street art. emanating from the whirling branches, a plethora of life explodes in the form of dancing bodies, like an explosion of knowledge. Under the tree, four yellow spotted figures, fully formed, stand in exaltation. With economical line work, the green branches, bright as daylight, seem to vibrate against the fuchsia in a carnival of rhythmic patterns. "Look, when I paint, it’s an experience that, at its best, transcends reality," Haring said, explaining that this dimension also reflected his mental state while working. “When it works, you transport yourself to another place, you connect with things that are completely universal, of total consciousness, far beyond your ego and your own being. That’s what it’s about” (K. Haring, quoted in D. Sheff, “Keith Haring: An Intimate Conversation,” in Rolling Stone, August 1989, reproduced on www.haring.com [accessed May 25, 2014]). “Tree of Life” has been exhibited at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen, the Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Milan Triennale in Milan, and the Dexia Banque Internationale de Luxembourg.)

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