Keith Haring

KEITH HARING (Pennsylvania, 1958- New York, 1990).
"Eight ball". 1st hardcover edition, 1989.
Lithograph on Arches paper (book).
Published by Art Random Jyoto Shoin International.
Signed by the artist with permanent marker inside.
Measurements: 31 x 24 x 1 cm.
First hardcover edition of the book Eight ball, published by Art Random Kyoto Shoin International in 1989 Lithograph on Arches paper. Haring quoted on April 28, 1989 in New York: "This book comes at a time in my life when I am searching for answers. This book is a testimony to that search. It is a book about the mysteries of love, life, death and art, not necessarily in that order. It attempts to reveal certain truths. However, as I have found in my own life, each revelation brings with it many more new questions. After 30 years I am at exactly the same point where I started."
Keith Haring was an American artist whose pop art and graffiti emerged from the street culture of New York City in the 1980s. Haring's work grew in popularity thanks to his spontaneous drawings on the New York City subway in chalk on black and white advertising space backgrounds. After achieving public recognition, he created large-scale works as murals. His later work often addressed political and social issues, especially homosexuality and AIDS, through his own iconography. Today Haring's work is divided between major private and public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Bass Museum in Miami; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Ludwig Museum in Cologne; and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He also created a wide variety of public works, including the infirmary at Children's Village in Dobbs Ferry, New Yorkand the second-floor men's room at Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, which was later transformed into an office and is known as the Keith Haring Room. In January 2019, an exhibition called "Keith Haring New York" opened at New York Law School in the main building of its Tribeca campus.