Keith Haring

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Carafe Investment Co. Ltd, Nassau
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1993

New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, December 1991 - January 1992

Germano Celant, ed., Keith Haring, Munich, 1992, cat. no. 51, n.p., illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. The upper and lower edges are decaled. Under very close inspection there are some pinpoint media accretions visible in scattered areas throughout, inherent to the artist’s method of production. The paper undulates slightly. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"Keith went naked into the world as the perfect boy-child of the electronic age. Like the youthful Rimbaud, he too will be acknowledged as a prophetic figure and one of the most endearing young oracles of the chaotic modern age, opening the way for a new utopic era of fraternal feeling and self-realization. He bravely chose to depict and resolve both destructive and constructive forces in society and art. These are the solutions we all dream of in fancy, but for Keith they were actual and attainable, through his art." 

Tony Shafrazi quoted in: Exh. Cat., New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Keith Haring, 1990, n.p.