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Keith HaringKeith Haring "Des Refusés" Westbeth Painters Space 1981 (announcement)1981
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Keith Haring "Des Refusés" Westbeth Painters Space 1981:
RARE original 1981 invitation for Keith Haring's first New York solo show at the historic Westbeth Theater Painters Space in Manhattan. Among the rarest and most highly coveted of all historical Haring artifacts.
Designed & illustrated by Haring, featuring the artist’s seminal crawling baby. A must have, museum worthy Haring collectible, which is sure to standout in any collection.
Medium: Off-set printed announcement.
Dimensions: 4.25 x 5.5 inches.
Minor signs of handling. Handwriting to the reverse. Good overall vintage condition.
Unsigned from an edition of unknown. Few known to have survived.
Provenance: obtained from a well known Manhattan based fine art book specialist.
Accompanied by a COA from Lot 180 Gallery New York.
Literature/References:
The Keith Haring Foundation acknowledges this via their website as Haring’s 1st solo exhibition.
Exhibited:
The Brooklyn Museum, March 16–July 8, 2012 : "Keith Haring: 1978–1982".
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Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990), a Neo-Pop and Graffiti artist, had a short but prolific career centered on a vision to unite “high art,” urban aesthetics, and public spaces using humorous, irreverent, and poignant works. Born in Pennsylvania, Haring attended the Ivy School of Art in Pittsburgh for two years, planning to become a commercial artist. He found this path unsatisfying, and instead chose to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he met fellow artists Jean Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf. Haring immersed himself in the culture of the city’s streets and clubs, and, in 1980, began covering the blank billboards on subway station walls with his Subway drawings in chalk.
Haring’s bold public art attracted the attention of several galleries, and, by the early 1980s, he was painting Neo-Pop works and large murals full time. In an effort to make his art widely accessible, Haring opened the Pop Shop in 1986 in downtown New York, selling commercial items adorned with his signature, cartoonish imagery.
Haring combined graffiti, hip-hop, and urban aesthetics, frequently depicting animals, figures, commercial icons, sexual imagery, and childlike motifs in pieces that were both playful and concerned with social issues. His work became increasingly confrontational following his 1987 diagnosis of AIDS. Haring resolved to work harder than ever in his remaining years, creating pieces with a fervent speed and devoting his art to social action in addition to his personal expression. In 1989, he established the Keith Haring Foundation, whose goal is to promote art programs and public spaces for children, and to raise awareness about AIDS.
He died on February 16, 1990 in New York at the age of 31. In addition to hundreds of exhibitions held during his lifetime, Haring has been the subject of numerous retrospectives in New York, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, and Berlin since his death.
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1981
- Dimensions:Height: 5.25 in (13.34 cm)Width: 4.25 in (10.8 cm)Depth: 5.5 in (13.97 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Handwriting reverse side.
- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354315585452
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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