Keith Haring (1958-1990)
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Keith Haring (1958-1990)

Untitled

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Keith Haring (1958-1990)
Untitled
signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'MERRY CHRISTMAS JONATHAN 1982 Love, Keith' (on the reverse); signed with the artist's monogram (on the reverse)
enamel on steel
12 x 12 x 3in. (30.5 x 30.5 x 7.6cm.)
Executed in 1982
Provenance
Gift from the artist to the present owner.
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Lot Essay

'I was thinking about these images as symbols, as a vocabulary of things. In one, a dog's being worshipped...In another one, the dog i sbeing zapped by a flying saucer. Suddenly it made sense to draw on the street, because I had something to say. I made this person crawling on all fours, which evolved into the quote-unquote baby. And there was an animal being, which now has evolved into the dog. They really were representational of human and animal. In different combinations they were about the difference between human power and the power of animal instinct' (K. Haring, interview with D. Sheff, 'Keith Haring: An Intimate Conversation', in Rolling Stone, 10 August 1989, n. p.)

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