Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
PIERRE ALECHINSKY | UNTITLED
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Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring
PIERRE ALECHINSKY
b. 1927
UNTITLED
signed, dated 4 nov. 1984 and inscribed Pour Keith Haring/ Cordialement/ Pierre 19 dicember 1984
ink on found furniture receipt
Sheet: 11¾ by 7⅝ in. (29.8 by 19.4 cm.)
Framed: 16¾ by 12⅞ in. (42.5 by 35.3 cm.)
Estate of Keith Haring, New York (gift of the artist in 1984)
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