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Keith Haring Eight Ball 1989:
This extremely rare 4 page printed/faxed document was created by Haring in 1988/1989, as a set of instructions to his publisher on “Eight Ball - Haring’s brilliantly rendered hardcover 1989 book. The instructions are printed on Keith Haring letterhead & included, as pictured, is the original 1989 book the instructions refer to.
Medium: Printed book instructions. 1989. 4 pages. Staple-bound.
Dimensions: 8.5x11 inches. With the original hardcover book included at 12.25 x 9.25 inches.
Documents: Fair overall vintage condition (coffee stains).
Book: Good overall vintage condition; contains an index sticker on the lower spine.
Printed signature.
Emanates from the private collection of a former Keith Haring Pop Shop employee.
Artist statement: “This book comes at a time in my life when I am searching for answers. Having spent thirty years here, each day seems to provide only more questions. This book is a testament to that search. It was constructed like a kind of game. First, I went through drawers full of old mementos, newspaper clippings and drawings that I had saved and found ones that were particularly interesting to me. Then, they were randomly glued onto the 20 sheets of paper which had each been measured to correspond to the size of a double-page spread in the book. After this, I painted the paper with red and green guache. Finally, with black sumi ink, I “finished” each of the drawings. This book is about the mysteries of love, life, death, and art (not necessarily in that order). It attempts to reveal certain truths. However, as I have found in my own life, each revelation brings with it many more new questions. After 30 years, I am exactly at the same point where I started.” – Keith Haring
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Figurative Drawings. Pop Art. Keith Haring 1989. Vintage Keith Haring. Keith Haring Eight Ball.
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1989
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 8.5 in (21.59 cm)
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- Condition:Cover: Fair overall vintage condition. Lithographs: Good overall vintage condition.
- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354310135942
Keith Haring
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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