Live Auction 12154Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Lot 451 DISRUPTION: A GENERATION OF PICTURES

Keith Haring (1958-1990)

Untitled

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 533,000

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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Untitled
signed, inscribed and dated 'K. Haring 85 ? 2-3' (on the base)
polyurethane enamel on A-36 steel
50 x 40 x 22 in. (127 x 101.6 x 55.8 cm.)
Executed in 1985. This work is one of three uniquely colored variants plus an artist's proof.

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“[Sculpture] 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).