Lot No. 81


Keith Haring


(Kutztown 1958-1990 New York) "Sheet 5 from the series: Apocalypse by William S. Burroughs", colour screenprint, signed and dated K. Haring 88, artist’s mark, No. 11 of 90 numbered copies, 96,5 x 96,5 cm, framed, Littmann page 105, (EH)

"Skyscrapers scrape rents of blue and white paint from the sky, shredding, peeling, nitrous ochres and red eat through bridges, which fall into the rivers splashing color across - my back I always hear - piers, streets AMOK art - Hurry up please, it's time - floods inorganic molds - Time's winged chariot hurrying - stirring passion of - near. Closing time, gentlemen - metal and glass steel - these our actors as I foretold you - girders writhe - actors frantically packing in theatrical - mineral lust - hotels... are all spirits." (From: Apocalypse, William S. Burroughs, in: Keith Haring, published by Klaus Littmann, Stuttgart/Basel/New York 1997, page 104)

Specialist: Mag. Elisabeth Hirschmann-Huemer Mag. Elisabeth Hirschmann-Huemer
+43-1-515 60-557

elisabeth.hirschmann-huemer@dorotheum.at

26.09.2012 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 3,750.-
Starting bid:
EUR 3,000.-

Keith Haring


(Kutztown 1958-1990 New York) "Sheet 5 from the series: Apocalypse by William S. Burroughs", colour screenprint, signed and dated K. Haring 88, artist’s mark, No. 11 of 90 numbered copies, 96,5 x 96,5 cm, framed, Littmann page 105, (EH)

"Skyscrapers scrape rents of blue and white paint from the sky, shredding, peeling, nitrous ochres and red eat through bridges, which fall into the rivers splashing color across - my back I always hear - piers, streets AMOK art - Hurry up please, it's time - floods inorganic molds - Time's winged chariot hurrying - stirring passion of - near. Closing time, gentlemen - metal and glass steel - these our actors as I foretold you - girders writhe - actors frantically packing in theatrical - mineral lust - hotels... are all spirits." (From: Apocalypse, William S. Burroughs, in: Keith Haring, published by Klaus Littmann, Stuttgart/Basel/New York 1997, page 104)

Specialist: Mag. Elisabeth Hirschmann-Huemer Mag. Elisabeth Hirschmann-Huemer
+43-1-515 60-557

elisabeth.hirschmann-huemer@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Modern and Contemporary Prints
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 26.09.2012 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 18.09. - 26.09.2012


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