Lot #1272: KEITH HARING - Pop Shop Mail Order Catalogue - Color offset lithograph

       

Artist: Keith Haring (American, 1958 - 1990).
Title: "Pop Shop Mail Order Catalogue [1986]".
Medium: Color offset lithograph.
Date: Composed 1986.
Dimensions: Overall size: 16 x 22 in. (406 x 559 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed in black marker, upper center, both recto and verso. Edition unknown. White wove paper. The full sheet. Fine impression with vibrant colors. Very good to fine condition for the catalogue, with folds as issued for mailing; envelope is in very good condition recto, good verso as the flap is creased; order form in fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Unknown to Gundel/von der Osten. Comment(s): Scarce, and rare signed, rarer yet with the original envelope and order form. An excellent example of a very ephemeral grouping. No auction records located. Haring's Pop Shop opened in 1986 at 292 Lafayette Street, NYC. It was a small shop completely painted by Haring. The walls, ceilings, and structural columns were painted in a black and white, continuous, archetypal design - people, shapes, and forms. The recto of this Pop Shop object is a photograph (by Tseng Kwong Chi) of Haring sitting in an opening within the store. The verso shows the merchandise offered for sale. Photography concept and art direction by Tseng Kwong Chi with the assistance of Ivan Della Tana; printed in Unichrome by Duggal. Image copyright © The Keith Haring Foundation. [28379-4-600]