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Art in Transit: 31 Subway Drawings by Keith Haring, From the Collection of Larry Warsh

Keith Haring

Untitled (Boombox Head)

Session begins in

November 21, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art in Transit: 31 Subway Drawings by Keith Haring, From the Collection of Larry Warsh

Keith Haring

1958 - 1990


Untitled (Boombox Head)

chalk on 3 joined sheets of black paper on original MTA mount

sheet: 83 by 41 ¾ in. (210.8 by 106 cm.)

mount: 87 by 45 in. (221 by 114.3 cm.)

Executed in 1984.

Private Collection, New York

Acquired from the above circa 1992 by the present owner

Susan Delson, ed., Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings, Princeton, 2012, pp. 55 and 65, illustrated in color

Reading Public Museum, Keith Haring Journey of the Radiant Baby, February - August 2006, no. 29, p. 82, illustrated in color

The Brooklyn Museum, Keith Haring: 1978-1982, March - July 2012

Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris; San Francisco, de Young Museum; Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung and Kunsthal Rotterdam, Keith Haring - The Political Line, April 2013 - February 2016, no. 140, illustrated in color (Paris); no. 81, p. 128, illustrated in color (San Francisco)

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat | Crossing Lines, December 2019 - April 2020, p. 62, illustrated in color