The Montreux Jazz Festival portfolio is the set of three posters that Keith Haring made for the festival in 1983, in neon screenprint, in three colourways, each showing a dancing figure. Pierre Keller, the festival’s art director, met Haring a few months after his first official exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York and asked him for a poster with a dancing figure. Haring came back with three designs, and all three were accepted for the 17th festival, held from 8 to 24 July 1983.
Keller and the festival’s founder, Claude Nobs, also invited Haring to Montreux, where he painted murals on large panels on stage with the musicians and in the streets of the town. Brad Gooch, author of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, says that “There was very little distinction with Haring between his life and art”, and the posters came out of that exchange, made for the event they advertise. They were printed in Bern by Albin Uldry. Haring returned to the festival in 1986 for a poster made with Andy Warhol, which makes the 1983 set the first of his two Montreux commissions. For collectors, they are festival posters by an artist at the start of his international career.
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Keith Haring Montreux Jazz Festival (Littmann PP. 24–27)
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Untitled 1–6 (1982) Portfolio
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Fertility Portfolio
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Montreux Jazz Festival
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Free South Africa
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Ludo
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Three Lithographs
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Andy Mouse
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Bad Boys
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Lucky Strike
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Untitled 1–4 (1987)
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Apocalypse
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Growing
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Pop Shop I
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Pop Shop II
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Pop Shop III
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Pop Shop IV
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Pop Shop V
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Pop Shop VI
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Chocolate Buddha
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Pyramid
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Stones
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The Story of Red and Blue
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The Valley
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Totem
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Untitled Etchings (1989)
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Blueprint Drawings
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Flowers
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Icons
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White Icons
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