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Keith Haring

Untitled (Giant Figure with Rope)

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November 21, 10:28 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art in Transit: 31 Subway Drawings by Keith Haring, From the Collection of Larry Warsh

Keith Haring

1958 - 1990

Untitled (Giant Figure with Rope)

chalk on 3 joined sheets of black paper on original MTA mount

sheet: 83 ¾ by 41 ¾ in. (212.7 by 106 cm.)

mount: 87 by 45 in. (221 by 114.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1981-83.

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Private Collection, New York

Acquired from the above circa 1988 by the present owner

Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea; Malmo Konsthall; Amburgo, Deichtorhallen and Tel Aviv, Museum of Art, Keith Haring, February 1994 - February 1995, no. 42, p. 95, illustrated in color

Fondazione Triennale di Milano, The Keith Haring Show, September 2005 - January 2006, no. 159, illustrated in color

The Brooklyn Museum, Keith Haring: 1978-1982, March - July 2012

Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; San Francisco, de Young Museum; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Keith Haring - The Political Line, April 2013 - February 2016, no. 100, illustrated in color (Paris); no. 77, p. 126, illustrated in color (San Francisco)

Vienna, Albertina Museum, Keith Haring - The Alphabet, March - June 2018, p. 86, illustrated in color

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat | Crossing Lines, December 2019 - April 2020, p. 61, illustrated in color

Susan Delson, ed., Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings, Princeton, 2012, pp. 4 and 10, illustrated in color