1989
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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$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
H 40 in W 30 in D 0.1 in
KEITH HARING Art Attack on AIDS, 1988 Vintage Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The history between "Art Attack on AIDS" and Keith Haring is rooted in Haring's deep commitment to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and using art as...
Screen
$280Sale Price|20% Off
H 37 in W 21 in D 0.1 in
Keith Haring 'Future Primeval' 1990 Pop Art Vintage
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original exhibition poster created for Keith Haring’s landmark show Future Primeval – Drawings, Paintings, and Artifacts, presented at the Queens Museum and University Galleries in 1...
Screen
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
H 31 in W 25 in D 0.1 in
KEITH HARING Learning Through Art, 1990 Vintage Pop Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring's involvement with the Learning Through Art program at the Guggenheim Museum Children's Program was a testament to his commitment to arts education and community outreac...
Lithograph
Pop Shop I Screen Print, Keith Haring, 1987, Signed, 1980s
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Pop Shop I (Littmann PP. 83), is the fourth and final print in the artist’s Pop Shop I portfolio of 1987. This silkscreen depicts two figures, one purple figure holding ...
Screen
$200Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.75 in W 9.5 in D 0.5 in
Keith Haring 'Short Messages' Offset Print Book, Pop Art, 2003 Edition
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring: Short Messages Posters, published in 2002 by Prestel Verlag, Munich, is a comprehensive catalog raisonné featuring Haring's posters from 1982 to 1990. This hardcover ed...
Offset
Keith Haring: Into 1984/Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Color offset lithograph. Signed and dated in felt-tip pen and pink ink, lower right. Published by Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
Color, Lithograph, Offset
$107,000
H 38.4 in W 28.1 in
Growing 2 Screen Print by Keith Haring, Abstract Expressionist, 1988
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Keith Haring Growing (Plate 2), is the second installment of the artist’s Growing portfolio of 1988. This silkscreen has a background of bright yellow and depicts around six teal fig...
Screen
$60Sale Price|71% Off
H 13 in W 37.5 in D 0.1 in
Keith Haring 'Untitled (1987)' 1989- Pop Art Vintage
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring's art vibrantly portrays themes of love, unity, and movement. This reproduction features three iconic images that encapsulate these themes: Two Men in Love: Depicts two...
Offset
$67,500
H 12 in W 15 in
Pop Shop II (1), Hand Signed Screen Print by Keith Haring, 1988, Edition 48/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered, and dated by Keith Haring. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Littmann p. ...
Paper, Screen
Pop Shop I (D)
By Keith Haring
Located in New York, NY
Created by Keith Haring in 1987, Pop Shop I (Plate D) is an original color screenprint measuring 12 x 15 in. (30.5 x 38.1 cm), unframed. The artwork is han...
Screen
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, this RARE poster advertisement was displayed by t...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 set of 2 works (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Spanish version: Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, these RARE poster advertisements ...
Lithograph, Offset
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 set of 2 works (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Set of 2 works (English & Spanish): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, these RARE...
Lithograph, Offset
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
Keith Haring Talk To Us! (Keith Haring Aids hotline)
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! poster c. 1994 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis with the disease, this poster was issued by ...
Offset, Lithograph
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (bag)
By Keith Haring
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Keith Haring Talk To Us! 1989 (The Aids Hotline): Designed & illustrated by Keith Haring one year after Haring's own diagnosis, this RARE promotional bag was distributed by the NYC ...
Offset, Plastic
