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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Fight AIDS Worldwide Lithograph, Pop Art, Estate Signed, Edition 583/1000
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph in colors, on Arches wove paper. Sheet size 11 x 8.5 inches. Frame size: 15.5 x 12.75 inches. Littmann p. 168. Estate stamped, hand signed by Julia Gruen, Executor of...
Paper, Lithograph
Untitled from Pop Shop I Screen Print, Hand Signed, Edition 138/200, 1988
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. Frame size a...
Paper, Screen
Untitled from Pop Shop V Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 39/200, 1989
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the rever...
Paper, Screen
Untitled from Pop Shop I Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 1987, Edition 35/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, numbered, and dated by the artist. Screenprint in colors, on wove paper, with full margins, Image size 10.5 x 13.375 inches.. Sheet size 12 x 15 inches. Frame size appro...
Paper, Screen
Untitled from Pop Shop IV Screen Print, Pop Art, Signed, 1989, Edition 175/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint in colors, on wove paper. Stamped with the artist's estate and signed, dated and numbered by the executor, Julia Gruen, in pencil on the reverse. Artwork size 13.5 x 16...
Paper, Screen
One Plate from Three Lithographs Suite, Hand Signed, Edition of 80, 1985
By Keith Haring
Located in Aventura, FL
From the Three Lithographs Suite. Lithograph in black and red, on BFK Rives paper. Edition 25/80 (there were also 20 artist's proofs). Sheet size 31.875 x 39.5 inches. Image size...
Paper, Lithograph
Keith Haring -- International Volunteer Day
By Keith Haring
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Keith Haring International Volunteer Day, 1988 Hand signed lower right Numbered 142/1000 Sheet size 28.6 x 21.6 cm Frame size: 63.5 x 53.5 x 3 cm Published by the World Federation of...
Lithograph
Pop Shop II Plate 3, Signed Colour Screenprint on Paper, 1988, 82/200
By Keith Haring
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Pop Shop II Plate 3 By Keith Haring Keith Haring was a visionary American artist and social activist known for his iconic, colorful, and dynamic graffiti-inspired artwork that eme...
Paper, Screen
Keith Haring 'Avril' 1990 Offset Lithograph Print, Framed, Mint
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage offset lithograph postcard published by Nouvelles Images SA Editeurs. Printed in France. Presented in a white wood frame with a 1-inch front profile and a 3/4-inch side profi...
Offset
Keith Haring Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse Pop Art Vintage
By (after) Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen VIII from Apocalypse is a 1988 vintage offset lithograph postcard, published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood fram...
Offset
Untitled 1984 Offset Print by Keith Haring, Framed, Vintage Art
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Keith Haring's 1984 untitled artwork, reproduced as a vintage offset lithograph postcard by Art Unlimited Amsterdam and printed in Holland, exemplifies his distinctive style characte...
Offset
Keith Haring 'Avril' 1990 Offset Lithograph Print, Framed, Mint
By Keith Haring
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage offset lithograph postcard published by Nouvelles Images SA Editeurs. Printed in France. Presented in a black wood frame with a 1-inch front profile and a 3/4-inch side profi...
Offset
