Keith Haring
Untitled (United Nations '88) / International Volunteer Day
1988
Lithography
27.9 × 21.6 cm
Ed. /1000
Location: Paris, France
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949814370
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About the artwork
Printed by Emiliano Sorini Studio and published by the World Federation of United Nations Associations in New York, this lithograph was created to commemorate International Volunteer Day. The composition features interlocking profiles and stylized limbs rendered in bold black contours against a pale yellow ground, accented by patches of red and teal. Abstracted globes or symbolic elements emit rhythmic lines, echoing the artist's recurring motifs of community, cooperation, and global connectivity. The sheet incorporates Arches paper with deckle edges and bears the signature and date in graphite at the lower right, alongside the edition number at the lower left. As part of an initiative to engage the public with institutional campaigns, the imagery bypasses elite conventions in favor of an accessible, graphic visual language. The composition reflects the artist's commercial printmaking output produced alongside his large-scale public murals.
Expert opinion
Signed lithographic editions from the late 1980s occupy a stable segment of the secondary market, bridging the accessibility of posters with the collectibility of fine art prints. Published in collaboration with international bodies, these works document Haring's institutional partnerships outside of commercial gallery networks.
About the artist
Keith Haring (1958-1990) was one of the leading figures of New York urban art in the 1980s. After studying at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he made a name for himself by spontaneously drawing with white chalk on black subway billboards. His playful, immediate and engaging style soon met with great success. His work is deeply influenced by graffiti, comics and street culture, but also by strong political themes: the fight against racism, the prevention of AIDS (from which he died in 1990), and the denunciation of social injustice.
Haring firmly believed in the accessibility of art: he opened his Pop Shop in 1986 to make his works affordable, while continuing to produce monumental public works around the world. His works have been exhibited many times, notably in New York in 1982 and in 2013 at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.
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