Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring

AFTER PABLO PICASSO | COUPLE NU

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October 1, 05:39 PM GMT

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300 - 500 USD

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Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring

AFTER PABLO PICASSO

1881 - 1973

COUPLE NU

signed with the artist's name, inscribed 46/300 and stamped with the printer’s inkstamp on the reverse; inscribed by a different hand To Keith Love Danny A on the backing board

lithographic reproduction, on Arches wove paper

Sheet: 15¾ by 19½ in. (40 by 49.7 cm.)

Framed: 18 by 21¾ in. (45.6 by 55.2 cm.)

Executed in 1972, this work is number 46 from an edition of 300. Printed by Mourlot, Paris.

The print is in good condition apart from faint discoloration, slightly darker and uneven on the verso, and an occasional inconspicuous handling crease. The upper corners slightly softened and with hinge remnants on the verso, showing faintly through, and one with associated minor skinning. Framed under Plexiglas.

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Private Collection, New York

Estate of Keith Haring, New York (gift of the above)

The Keith Haring Foundation (by bequest from the above in 1990)

"For me it was very interesting how obviously early abstract painters like Braque, Picasso, or Brancusi really were directly inspired by things that were starting to turn up for the first time from Africa. You can see pictures of African sculptures in their studios; and in their paintings you notice that they put all of that directly through their western idea of art. With me it’s not so much looking at or trying to imitate as much as it is trying to embody the idea of “primitivism” in my own approach to the work and my attitude towards drawing and towards the world."

- Keith Haring in The Ten Commandments, An Interview by Sylvie Couderc, with the collaboration of Syivie Marchand, December 1985