Apr 26, 2018 - Sale 2475

Sale 2475 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 2,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
HARING, KEITH. Pincus-Witten, Robert; et al. Keith Haring: Tony Shafrazi Gallery exhibition catalogue. Profusion of reproductions and photographic plates. 8vo, original spiral-bound neon pink pictorial wrappers, few minor surface imperfections. Designed by Dan Friedman, printed at the Fleetwood Press. New York, 1982

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exhibition catalogue for haring's landmark show. with a signed and dated doodle by haring on his self-portrait frontispiece. In addition, there is a laid-in promotional card for the show signed by haring and andy warhol. The exhibition launched Haring's career and he was soon traveling worldwide and participating in international shows. Shafrazi said of Haring: "The originality was obvious and the vocabulary was almost like a dictionary of images . . . it wasn't art that was going to sit on the wall, it was art in movement"--John Gruen, Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography, New York, 1991.