Keith Haring

Haring drew in chalk on the black paper that covered expired advertising in the New York subway — hundreds of drawings a week, made in minutes, for an audience that had not asked for art. The vocabulary he invented there, the radiant baby and the barking dog, is now legible almost anywhere on earth.

He opened the Pop Shop so that the work stayed affordable, and kept making it through his diagnosis until his death at thirty-one. The urgency in the late paintings is not a stylistic choice.

The market is deep in prints and posters and thin in paintings. We advise on both, and on the considerable quantity of misattributed work in circulation.