Keith Haring: Theater Der Welt, 1985 - Original Signed Silkscreen Print

Screen print : Screen printing, also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing - from latin "Sericum (silk) and greek "grapheion" (writing) - is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image into a substrate. It is possible to use different meshes, for different colors, and create multi-colored works. In the field of art, it is important to know how many prints have been made. The total number of prints is usually written on the print (e.g 20/200).
Keith Haring : (1958-1990), born in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, was one of the major American artist of the 80's. He studied at the School of Visual Arts of New York in 1978 and 1979. He discovered there the tremendous alternative culture and met underground artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat or Madonna. His art was born from the graffiti artists' means of expression: it is similar to "tags" or "slangs". Starting from 1981, Haring covered New York subway billboards with graffiti. The same year, Tony Shafrazi organized his first exhibition. Keith Haring developed a style inspired by comics and electronic images. He mixed historical and media-friendly cultures to reach an iconography based on archetypes. Like American Pop Art artists, his art is the echo of a world marked by its own contradictions, shared between the American dream, and the social reality of racism, exclusion and violence. His work continued to evolve, and to reach international recognition, until his premature death. He spread his own images in the form of badges, tee-shirts, posters, through his "Pop shop". The artist created environments: sculptures with African totem shapes, wall paintings in public spaces etc. Above all, Keith Haring dedicated his art to causes in which he believed, such as anti-nuclear campaigns, or campaigns against South African apartheid. Between 1982 and 1989, he created no less than 50 public works, around the globe, mainly for charities, hospitals, or orphanages. As a truly engaged artist, Keith Haring participated actively to the fight against AIDS, as he was himself infected in 1988. He died of the complications of the illness in 1990, leaving behind him a profuse and singular work, which survives him thanks to numerous retrospectives, and thanks to the uninterrupted presence of his pictograms in the popular culture and by-products. His works are today conserved in the most important museums in the world.

François Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
Ludwig Museum (Budapest) (Hungary)
CAPC Museum of Modern Art of Bordeaux (France)
The Broad Art Foundation (The USA)
The Whitney Museum of American Art (The USA)
Museum Villa Haiss (Germany)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Hiroshima MOCA (Japan)
Lever House Art Collection (The USA)
Fundação Museu de Serralves (Portugal)
Rubell Family Collection (The USA)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice (MAMAC) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Dr. Erich Marx Collection (Germany)
Le Magasin - National Center for Contemporary Art of Grenoble (France)
Kröller-Müller Museum (Netherlands)
Microcollection (Italy)
Åbergs Museum (Sweden)
Sammlung FER Collection (Germany)
Museum of Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA) (Belgium)
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MACBA) Barcelona (Spain)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
MIT List Visual arts Center (The USA)
ACAPA (Artothèque Angoulême) (France)
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art (The USA)
Carmignac Gestion Foundation (France)
MAD Museum of Arts and Design (The USA)
Gateway Foundation (The USA)
nufnuf-art foundation (Switzerland)
White Museum (Capri palace) (Italy)
Absolut Art Collection (Sweden)
Visible Collection (Spain)
Enea Righi Collection (Italy)
CGAC - Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst (Germany)
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Des Moines Art Center (The USA)
Memorial Art Gallery Rochester (The USA)
Haggerty Museum at Marquette University (The USA)
Ulmer Museum (Germany)
Huntington Gallery of Art (The USA)
Collezione Lucio Amelio (Terrae Motus) (Italy)
The New Britain Museum of Art (The USA)
Martijn en Jeannette Sanders art collection (Netherlands)