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Keith HaringKeith Haring - FOR EARL (MY SECOND FAVORITE DEALER), signed radiant baby drawing1988
1988
$25,000
£18,881.68
€21,811.27
CA$35,221.44
A$37,722.18
CHF 20,279.18
MX$458,157.86
NOK 256,237.34
SEK 234,604.34
DKK 162,970.07
About the Item
Radiant baby drawing done in marker on inside page of historic limited edition monograph
Boldly signed, dated '88 and inscribed "FOR EARL (MY SECOND FAVORITE DEALER)
This original marker drawing was done on one of the illustrated first front end pages - a photographic reproduction of Haring - of the oversized limited edition exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of Keith Haring's drawings, paintings and prints at the Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.
Provenance: Acquired from the Estate of art dealer Earl McGrath
This drawing, bound in the original monograph, has been elegantly floated and framed in a museum quality wood frame under UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed
16 inches (vertical) by 22 inches (horizontal) by 2 inches
Artwork:
12 inches (vertical) by 17.5 inches (horizontal)
who was Earl McGrath?
This work was acquired from the Estate of Earl and Camilla McGrath. (Camilla died in 2007. and Earl died in 2016 at the age of 84.) In remembering Earl McGrath for Vanity Fair magazine, Warhol's editor and confidant Bob Colacello interviewed the many celebrities and artists who adored McGrath: "He was the last of a breed, one of the last great gentlemen and bohemians,” says Harrison Ford.."; He was the funniest man I have ever known,” declares Jerry Hall, whose friendship with McGrath went back to 1975, when she was the girlfriend of Bryan Ferry and he was vice president of Atlantic Records. “He also had a huge heart and was a magnet for us all in New York and Los Angeles.”; “Earl was so brilliantly irreverent,” says Anjelica Huston, who credits McGrath with introducing her to her late husband, the sculptor Robert Graham, who showed at his Los Angeles gallery; “He wasn’t always the jokester,” notes Brice Marden, who frequently dined tête-à-tête with McGrath. “He also had a keen eye and a kind of natural wisdom, albeit with a slightly warped attitude towards things. I just found him a really good person to hang out with. Whenever I had some deep question, I always wanted to consult Earl. It was reassuring to hear what he had to say.”...So who was this Earl McGrath? Unknown to the general public (and liking it that way), he was very well known to the very well known, the ultimate insider equally at home in the upper echelons of music, art, letters, and entertainment. Among the regulars who flocked to the salon-like lunches and dinners he and his wife, Countess Camilla Pecci-Blunt, a descendant of Pope Leo XIII, gave at their apartment across from Carnegie Hall and their house in West Hollywood were Andy Warhol; Mick Jagger; Gore Vidal; Audrey Hepburn; Anita Loos; Cy Twombly; Larry Rivers; Francesco and Alba Clemente; Prince Rupert Loewenstein; Connie Wald; Wendy Stark; Michelle Phillips; Julian Sands; Annie Leibovitz; Jann and Jane Wenner; Sonny and Gita Mehta; Terry Southern; Fernanda Eberstadt; Wes Anderson; Prince Michael of Greece and his wife, Marina Karella (who showed at McGrath’s gallery); Christopher Isherwood; Isabella Rossellini; Bernardo Bertolucci; and Dennis Hopper..."
- Creator:Keith Haring (1958-1990, American)
- Creation Year:1988
- Dimensions:Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)
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- Condition:Very good original vintage condition; Ships framed.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745217439702
Keith Haring
Keith Haring began experimenting with his bold, graphic lines and cartoon-inspired figures on the walls of New York City subway stations in the early 1980s. He called them his “laboratory,” places to develop a radical new aesthetic based on an ideology of creating truly democratic public art.
Haring’s paintings, prints and murals address the universal themes of death, love and sex, as well as contemporary issues he experienced personally, like the crack-cocaine and AIDS epidemics. They derive much of their impact from the powerful contrast between these serious subjects and the joyful, vibrant pictographic language he uses to express them, full of dancing figures, babies, barking dogs, hearts and rhythmic lines, as well as references to pop culture.
To make his art even more accessible, in 1986, Haring opened the Pop Shop in Soho. In a foreshadowing of today’s intermingling of art and fashion, the shop sold merchandise and novelty items featuring imagery by Haring and contemporaries like Kenny Scharf and Jean-Michel Basquiat. While his works sometimes included text, for the most part, he chose to communicate through drawing.
“Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times,” Haring once declared. “It lives through magic.”
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