Item: Andy Warhol Sikscreen Portrait Of Keith Haring Unique Piece Authenticated
Sold For: $15,100.00
Bids: 9
Date: Jul 14, 2012
Auction: Ebay
Description and Image By: no_vaini_no_entry
Keith Haring by Andy Warhol…
Silkscreen on T-SHIRT XXL 70 x 64 cm sheet
the image of silkscreen in fantastic..
measures image 50 x 62 cm circa authenticated by AWF on verso stamp on verso AWF /ESTATE Numbered UP 97..ILLEGIBLE 17 OR 77
IN FRAMED 80 X 60 CM This is an original two-color silkscreen print of “Keith Haring” (c.1984) on a cotton t-shirt by Pop Art icon Andy Warhol. It is signed in the screen by Warhol.provenance Andy Warhol Foundation estate of andy warhol this piece is sold by Estate of Andy warhol in 1990 circa,today the Andy Warhol Foundation ask 13.000 dollar for this T-SHIRT!!!! There are a few minor condition problem,but nothing that significantly detracts from the overall clarity of the image or potential for archivally framing and hanging this on your wall! +++ It is truly a work of art – and an amazing association piece – making evident the intimacy of Warhol’s friendship with Keith Haring during this period before both died untimely deaths. Of course, very few of these t-shirts were produced, and they seem quite apparently to have been hand-printed (just look at how the image extends and “bleeds” onto the collar). This t-shirt was designed by Andy Warhol and printed during his lifetime. These were never tagged with “sewn-in” Pop Shop labels or produced “commercially” (like the “licensed” goods produced after both artists’ deaths). This was uniquely printed on what simply appears to be a “store-bought” white Hanes cotton t-shirt presumably by Andy Warhol’s late collaborator Rupert Jasen Smith, Jr. in NYC – exclusively for distribution (in a very limited edition) at Keith Haring’s Pop Shop. As most know, Rupert Jasen Smith, Jr. died of AIDS related complications at the age of 37. He was Andy Warhol’s art director and master printer for more than 15 years (beginning with the “Hammer and Sickle” series in 1977), and Smith also collaborated on prints with Keith Haring. To my knowledge, this original silkscreen of “Keith Haring” by Andy Warhol does not exist in any other format. I am not aware of this silkscreened image being editioned on paper (although Warhol and Haring collaborated on some posters and co-signed the “Andy Mouse” series), and I don’t believe that the screens were ever used to make paintings. Warhol produced a “dual” portrait of Keith Haring with his then lover on canvas, but those works (if ever made available) would sell for hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. Warhol’s Green Car Crash (1963) set an auction record several years ago at $71.7 million, and even limited editions by the artist sell for over $100k.