Keith Haring

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 USD

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Description

Keith Haring
Untitled (Three Dancing Figures)
incised with the signature, date 1989 and number 3/5 on the base
polyurethane enamel on aluminum
74 by 65 1/2 by 54 1/4 in. 188 by 166.5 by 138 cm.
Executed in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 5 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Estate of Keith Haring

Provenance

The Estate of Keith Haring, New York
Private Collection, Seoul

Catalogue Note

"A painting, to a degree, is still an illusion of a material. But once you cut things out of steel and put it up, it is a real thing, I mean it could kill you. If it falls, it will kill you. It has a kind of power that a painting doesn't have. You can't burn it. It would survive a nuclear blast probably. It has this permanent, real feeling that will exist much much much longer than I will ever exist, so it's a kind of immortality. All of which I guess, to a degree, is like that...all of the things that you make are a kind of a quest for immortality." – Keith Haring (Dan Drenger, "Art and Life: An Interview with Keith Haring", Columbia Art Review, Spring 1998, p. 45)