Keith Haring
1958 - 1990
Aus: The Fertility Suite. 1983.
Silkscreen in colors.
Signed, dated, and numbered as well as with the artist's signet. From an edition of 100 copies. On firm wove paper. 106.5 x 126.5 cm (41.9 x 49.8 in), size of sheet.
One of five prints from the Fertility Suite. Published by Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York. [AR].

• Large-format color silkscreen print from the Fertility Suite.
• The series is considered one of the artist's most socially critical works, celebrating life with bright colors and symbols despite its serious subject matter.
• Keith Haring's stylized figures are considered the epitome of pop art.
• Privately owned for more than 30 years.

PROVENANCE: ARTAX Kunsthandel, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, Southern Germany.

LITERATURE: Klaus Littmann, Keith Haring. Editions on Paper 1982-1990. Das druckgraphische Werk, Stuttgart 1993, p. 33 (illu. in color, another copy).

Overall with creases, isolated scratches, and fine cracks in the paint layer reminiscent of craquelure, some of which have been retouched. In places, further extensive overpainting/color matching in the green background. At the top of the head of the middle figure, there is faint dark soiling in two of the yellow dots. The white edges of the leaves are minimally soiled in places, and there is a small brown spot on the left. The paper is slightly wavy overall.