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Keith Haring
1958 - 1990
Untitled 3. 1985.
Lithograph in colors.
Signed, dated, and numbered, and with the artist’s monogram. From an edition of 60 copies. On BFK Rives wove paper (with the watermark). 96.7 x 76.6 cm (38 x 30.1 in). Sheet: 100,1 x 81 cm (39,4 x 31,8 in).
Sheet 3 from the “Free South Africa” series. Printed by Matthieu Litho, Dielsdorf/Zurich (with blind stamp). Published by Edition Schellmann, Munich/New York. [KA].
• Large-format color lithograph from the “Free South Africa” series.
• In the year this work was created, the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York presented a solo exhibition of the artist’s sculptures.
• Haring viewed his art as a powerful means of communication and social change.
• Other editions by the artist are held in major museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as the Albertina in Vienna.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia.
LITERATURE: Klaus Littmann, Keith Haring. Editions on Paper 1982-1990. Das druckgraphische Werk, Stuttgart 1993, p. 43, (illustrated in color, different copy).
In good condition. Mounted on cardboard. Two small creases in the lower left corner of the sheet. On the reverse, along the right and left edges of the sheet, there are a few small traces from a previous mounting, showing minimal show-through to the front
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