Jun 08, 2023 - Sale 2640

Sale 2640 - Lot 290

Unsold
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
KEITH HARING
Untitled (Polaroid).

Felt-tip pen and ink on wove paper, 1984. 210x295 mm; 8 1/4x11 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in ink, right margin recto.

Drawn on Fun Gallery, New York letterhead paper.

The Fun Gallery was an art gallery founded by the underground film actress Patti Astor and Bill Stelling in 1981 in the East Village, New York. It was a pivotal gallery in the early 1980s New York art scene and the developing international art market. Between 1981 and 1985, Fun Gallery organized solo exhibitions for Kenny Scharf (1981), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1982) and Keith Haring (1983). Haring's (1958-1990) announcement card for his solo exhibition at Fun Gallery, which ran from February 3-27, 1983, shows three figures stretched and contorted to create the word "FUN."

Provenance: Private collection, New York.