1988
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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Keith Haring - FOR EARL (MY SECOND FAVORITE ART DEALER), signed drawing, Framed
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Radiant baby drawing done in marker on inside page of historic limited edition monograph Boldly signed, dated '88 and inscribed "FOR EARL (MY SECOND FAVORITE ART DEALER)...
Permanent Marker
Champions, famed 1984 Exhibition Invitation (Hand signed by Keith Haring) Framed
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Offset lithograph (Hand signed and dated 1988 by Keith Haring with his logo, also bears original postmarked stamp and label) Boldly signed and dated '88 by Keith Haring with his dist...
Lithograph, Offset
Limited Edition Coloring Book (Artist Book of 20 Bound Offset Lithographs), 1985
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Coloring Book (Artist Book of 20 Bound Offset Lithographs), 1985, 1986 Artist Book of 20 staple bound Offset Lithographs Plate signed on cover page; with publisher and a...
Mixed Media, Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring -Hiroshima Peace Celebration Hand Signed by Keith Haring provenance
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Rare Hiroshima Peace Celebration poster (hand signed by Keith Haring), from the Patrick Eddington Collection, 1988 Framed Original offset lithograph (Hand signed by Keit...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring - Fun Book!! 12 offset prints, 2nd Edition, Limited Edition 1500
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring - Fun Book Second Edition Limited Edition 1500 - published in a stated limited edition of 1500 (unnumbered; total edition documented on the back page) Plate signed (prin...
Offset
Keith Haring - Original handwritten Letter, signed by Keith Haring on letterhead
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Original Handwritten, hand signed Letter, ca. 1987 Ink on Haring's Private letterhead Stationery, Hand written and hand signed by Keith Haring Unique, original piece: ch...
Paper, Ink, Permanent Marker
Signed Lithograph Coloring Book by Keith Haring
By Keith Haring
Located in Long Island City, NY
A blank coloring book designed and printed by American Pop artist Keith Haring. This copy is signed and dated in pen by the artist and features several illustrations in the artist’s ...
Lithograph
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring The Homecoming 1987: RARE folding announcement designed by Haring in 1987 to promote, "The American Run for the End of Aids". A rare, historic Keith Haring activist coll...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum drawing & catalogue (signed Keith Haring drawing)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 15th – 12th May, 1986: Signed Keith Haring Stedelijk Museum exhibitio...
Paper, Ink
Keith Haring Paul Maenz 1984 (announcement)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany 1984: Super rare, tri-fold poster booklet published to announce Haring’s 1984 solo exhibition at Paul Maenz Gallery in Cologne (Hari...
Lithograph, Offset
Signed artist catalog with a drawing
By Keith Haring
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A wonderful drawing by Keith Haring on the first page of a catalog of his artworks exhibition. printed by Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1982 Signed lower right. Hand signed Marker...
Magazine Paper, Permanent Marker
Keith Haring lithographic insert 1982 (Keith Haring Tony Shafrazi 1982)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Lithograph 1982: Double-sided lithographic insert from the seminal spiral bound, 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalog published on the occasion of Haring's first gallery solo exhi...
Lithograph, Offset
