Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring – FAD magazine
Posted: August 29, 2020 at 7:58 am
Keith Haring Photographer unknown 1989. Courtesy of The LGBT Community Center National History Archive
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring in a dedicated online auction open for bidding from 24th September 1st October 2020 at Sothebys
Dear Keith will present 140+ works of art and objects from Harings personal collection, all on offer from the Keith Haring Foundation an organization established by the artist shortly before his death in 1990 from HIV/AIDS-related causes. Harings collection features works gifted to, purchased by and traded with Haring among friends and artists in his community, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf, and many more.
Gil Vazquez, Acting Director of the Keith Haring Foundation, said:
Dear Keith is an especially meaningful event in what is the 30th anniversary of Keiths passing. It feels as if Keith himself rallied his friends to make art for this specific purpose. It is rare that we as a foundation are able to address so many of the concerns that our founder deeply cared about in a single gift. The Center embodies so much of what Keith was about: community, empowerment, and the support of our future, the youth. We feel confident that this gift during this time for this purpose is the right thing.
Keith Haring Foundation. Polaroids, The Keith Haring Foundation Archives
All of the works will appear at auction this Autumn for the first time, together revealing never-before-told stories about Harings community and bringing to life the celebrated art scene of 1970s and 80s New York from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) and Club 57 to street art and beyond.
In keeping with the Keith Haring Foundations mission to sustain and expand the artists legacy of philanthropy, full proceeds from the auction will benefit The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York (also known as The Center) an organization that empowers the queer community of New York to lead healthy, successful lives; celebrates the communitys diversity and advocates for justice and opportunity.
During his 10+ years living and working in downtown Manhattan, Haring was engaged in the queer / downtown art and activism scene. He executed one of his final large-scale murals, Once Upon a Time, in the second-floor mens bathroom at The Center in May 1989 for The Center Show a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots that featured works by LGBTQ artists commissioned by The Center. That mural stands to this day. Haring was devoted to all of his communities, from his family and friends to collaborators both in art and activism, and the Foundation is pleased to celebrate the enduring connection he had with The Center through this gift.
Harrison Tenzer, Head of Sothebys Contemporary Art Online Sales in New York, said:
Dear Keith spotlights the diverse community of artists whose unique visions inspired Keith throughout his life. The collection is remarkably autobiographical, just as any great collectors estate is a window into their individual perspective. We see the progression of Keiths life captured in these works, from those of his childhood friend Kermit Oswald, to SVA peers John Sex and Kenny Scharf, to fellow upstart Jean-Michel Basquiat, to graffiti writers Futura 2000 and Lee Quiones, to his heroes Andy Warhol, Pierre Alechinsky and William Burroughs, who he collaborated with during his meteoric rise to fame. Together they illuminate a culturally fertile era in which artists and activists worked closely together to create a world that was more inclusive than the one they were born into. I am deeply honored that the Keith Haring Foundation has entrusted Sothebys with this momentous opportunity to celebrate Keiths continuing legacy, and I am proud that the sale will benefit The Centers important work.
Dear Keith: Works from the Personal Collection of Keith Haring will be on view by appointment in Sothebys York Avenue galleries from 26th 30th September. sothebys.com/dear-keith
Fascinated by cartoons from an early age, Keith Haring was best known for striking graffiti-inspired drawings that took him from New York Citys streets and clubs to museums and public spaces around the world. While attending the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1978, Haring discovered a thriving art community of fellow emerging artists such as Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Tseng Kwong Chi. Haring created a singular graphic style based on the primacy of the line, peopling his compositions with such signature images as dancing figures, radiant babies, barking dogs and flying saucers, and infusing them with uncommon energy.
Between 1980 and 1989, Keith Haring achieved international recognition, participating in numerous group and solo shows and producing more than 50 public artworks from New York to Paris. By expressing universal concepts of birth, death, love, sex and war, Haring created lasting imagery that has been embraced around the world. Harings works can be found in the collections of many museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albertina, in Vienna, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and many more.
Shortly before his death in 1990, Haring established the Keith Haring Foundation. The mission of the Foundation continues to be threefold: the support of organizations committed to enriching the lives of children, promoting care and education surrounding issues of HIV/AIDS, and furthering the legacy of his artwork.
Haring was greatly influenced by Andy Warhol, who was both a friend and artistic collaborator. In 1989 he told Rolling Stone:
Before I knew [Warhol], he had been an image to me. He was totally unapproachable. I met him finally through Christopher Makos, who brought me to the Factory. At first, Andy was very distant. It was difficult for him to be comfortable with people if he didnt know them. Then he came to another exhibition at the Fun Gallery, which was soon after the show at Shafrazi. He was more friendly. We started talking, going out. We traded a lot of works at that time.
The auction includes a number of such works, including an Untitled portrait of Haring with Juan DuBose a DJ as well as Harings partner and lover, who passed away due to HIV/AIDS in 1988 (pictured above, estimate $200/250,000). Haring and DuBose had a passionate on-and-off relationship for five years that was predominantly driven by physical attraction. The sale also features a significant group of works by artists associated with Club 57 the night club located in a church basement in New Yorks East Village that quickly became one of the most influential centers of the citys countercultural movement when it opened its doors in 1978.
Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat (pictured above: Basquiat, Untitled, estimate $100/150,000), Tseng Kwong Chi, Stefano Castronovo, Samantha McEwen, Kermit Oswald, Kenny Scharf, Bruno Schmidt and John Sex bear witness to a definitive downtown scene fueled by low rents, opposition to the Reagan administration, and the desire to experiment with new modes of art, performance, fashion, music, and exhibition.
Kenny Scharf was particularly close with Haring having become fast friends at the School of the Visual Arts, the two were roommates and collaborated often. The sale features works on paper by the artist, highlighted by his watercolor on paper in hand-painted frame Untitled (pictured above, estimate $18/25,000), as well as a number of hand-painted objects.The street art scene in which Haring worked in the 1970s and 80s is well represented, including pieces by John Crash Matos, Lady Pink, Lee Quiones, Rammellzee and Basquiat, whose work he greatly admired. In his essay Remembering Basquiat published in Vogue, Haring wrote:
His work had a kind of power which was unmistakably real. The intensity and directness of his vision was intimidating. Jean-Michel was maybe a little too real for us. He was uncompromising, disobedient, and rude if the situation required it. Not malicious, but honest.
Another close friend of the artist was George Condo, who often worked from Harings East Village studio. The sale includes an excellent grouping of early drawings and paintings done by the artist in the 1980s, including an Untitled work on paper featuring the inscription: For Keith in Paris, so it is once before a bum I am
Haring also owned a number of works by established artists whom he greatly admired, including Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti, Roy Lichtenstein and Pablo Picasso. The sale includes two Lichtenstein prints, including Forms in Space from 1985 which took pride of place above the fireplace in his home (pictured above, estimate $50/70,000). Lichtenstein attended Keiths first major exhibition in New York, as did Robert Rauschenberg and Sol Le Witt.
Mark Westall is the Founder and Editor of FAD magazine Founder and co-publisher Art of Conversation and founder of the platform @worldoffad
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