Untitled 1–4 is a portfolio of four lithographs that Keith Haring made in 1987 in red, yellow, blue and black, in the middle of one of his busiest years. In 1987 he painted an 88-foot mural on the exterior stairwell of the Necker-Enfants Malades children’s hospital in Paris, designed a carousel for André Heller’s Luna Luna amusement park in Hamburg and completed We the Youth in Philadelphia to mark the bicentennial of the Constitution. Brad Gooch, author of Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring, says that “Haring tries kind of everything”, and the portfolio is one of his quieter experiments, four prints on a more intimate scale than the murals.
The primary colours suggest play, but the subject is heavier. The set is read as an allegory about television and violence: in one print a lone figure sits inside a television set and covers its eyes, a figure that refuses to look at what the screen shows, and in another a figure has a hole through its stomach, one of Haring’s most recurrent images. He recalled growing up in America in the 1960s, learning about the war in Vietnam from Life magazine and watching riots on television, and the television is a symbol of mass media and the news cycle throughout his work. For collectors, the portfolio pairs Haring’s simplest palette with one of his most outspoken subjects.
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Keith Haring Untitled 1 - 4 (1987) Portfolio (Littmann PP. 74-75)
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