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Keith Haring1988 Man, Signed and inscribed, Estate of Dorothy Berenson Blau, Littmann PP. 921988
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Keith Haring
1988 Man, from the Estate of Dorothy Berenson Blau (with unique inscription), 1988
Silkscreen. Signed and inscribed to pioneering Miami dealer, Dorothy Berenson Blau
Frame included: held in the original vintage frame
This work is a rare, hand signed and inscribed proof, aside from the regular edition of 150.
The inscription reads as follows:
"For Dorothy with Love"
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Littmann PP. 92
Framed in the original vintage wood frame as it was acquired from the Berenson Blau estate;
Measurements:
Framed:
13 x 11 x .5 inches
Artwork:
10 1/8 x 8 inches
In 1988, Keith Haring was at the height of his fame as an artist (and fixture on the club scene.) That year, he designed this print as an invitation for a decadent New Years Eve sex party in NYC, featuring an irreverent pinstriped personification of capitalism. You'd be forgiven if you thought Haring's 1988 man reminded you of a jailbird. Only two years later Haring would be dead of AIDS. Only 150 of these invitations were hand signed and numbered, and some artists proofs - like the present work - were personally inscribed by Keith.
Own a piece of Pop history with extraordinary provenance. This is a hand signed and inscribed silkscreen entitled "1988 Man" - a rare Artist's Proof, aside from the regular edition of 150. This silkscreen was given by Keith Haring to his dear friend and dealer, the pioneering Miami art dealer, Dorothy Berenson Blau who was one of the first to champion Pop Art and befriended artists like Keith Haring, Robert Indiana and Andy Warhol. She published several Pop Art portfolios, and actively promoted Pop artists in the Miami region with great success. The work is hand signed and dated by Keith Haring along the right recto and inscribed to her with obvious gratitude.
This was acquired from the Berenson Estate.
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1988
- Dimensions:Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)Depth: 0.5 in (1.27 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:Not examined outside of original vintage frame but appears fine.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213589632
Keith Haring
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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