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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Lot 337

Keith Haring (1958-1990)

Untitled (Acrobats)

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 193,250

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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Untitled (Acrobats)
incised with the artist's signature and monogram and dated 'Keith Haring 87' (on the base)
baked enamel on aluminium
39 x 19 3/8 x 13in. (99 x 49.2 x 33cm.)
Executed in 1987

A gift from the artist to Mr. François Labbé, Nice, in 1987.
Galerie Ferrero, Nice.

Specialist note

'But once you cut this thing out of steel and put it up, it is a real thing, I mean it could kill you... It has a kind of power that a painting doesn't have. You can't burn it. It would survive a nuclear blast probably. It has this permanent, real feeling that will exist much much longer than I will ever exist, so it's a kind of immortality. All of it I guess, to a degree, is like that... All of the things that you make are a kind of quest for immortality.'

(K. Haring, quoted in Flash Art, March 1984, p. 22).