LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

107.99 in. (274.30 cm.) (height) by 120.00 in. (304.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'SILENCE = DEATH ©K. Haring SEPT. 11 - 88' (on the overlap)

Exhibited:

Fondazione Triennale di Milano, The Keith Haring Show, September 2005-January 2006, p. 288, no. 130 (illustrated in color). San Francisco, de Young, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Keith Haring: The Political Line, November 2014-February 2015, p. 232, no. 195 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

Keith Haring, exh. cat., Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, 1994, p. 204 (studio view illustrated in color). J. Deitch, S. Geiss and J. Gruen, Keith Haring, New York, 2008, pp. 460-461 (illustrated in color). Keith Haring – The Alphabet, exh. cat., Vienna, Albertina Museum, 2018, pp. 32-33, fig. 10 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988