Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
PIERRE ALECHINSKY | QUATRE ARRONDISSEMENTS
Lot Closed
October 1, 05:57 PM GMT
Estimate
300 - 500 USD
Lot Details
Description
THIS LOT IS BEING OFFERED AT NO RESERVE
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
PIERRE ALECHINSKY
b. 1927
QUATRE ARRONDISSEMENTS
signed and numbered 26/90
lithograph printed in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 21 by 24⅛ in. (53.5 by 61.3 cm.)
Framed: 23⅝ by 26⅝ in. (60 by 67.5 cm.)
Executed circa 1982-84, this work is number 26 from an edition of 90.
Estate of Keith Haring, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
The Keith Haring Foundation (by bequest from the above in 1990)
"I went to a huge retrospective by Pierre Alechinsky at the Carnegie Museum of Art. It was the first time that I had seen someone who was older and established doing something that was vaguely similar to my little abstract drawings. It gave me this whole new boost of confidence. It was the time I was trying to figure out if I was an artist, why and what that meant… The thing I responded to most [with respect to these artists] was their belief that art could reach all kinds of people, as opposed to the traditional view, which has art as this elitist thing. The fact that these influences quote-unquote happened to come along changed the whole course I was on. "
- Keith Haring in Conversation with David Sheff, "Keith Haring: Just Say Know", Rolling Stone Magazine, 10 August 1989