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This is an two-color silkscreen print of “Keith Haring” (c.1986) on a cotton t-shirt by Pop Art icon Andy Warhol. It is signed in the screen by Warhol.
Measures image circa 50 x 62 cm
Good condition
Provenance: private collection

It is truly a work of art – and an amazing association piece – making evident the intimacy of Warhol’s friendship with Keith Haring during this period before both died untimely deaths. Of course, very few of these t-shirts were produced, and they seem quite apparently to have been hand-printed (just look at how the image extends and “bleeds” onto the collar).

This t-shirt was designed by Andy Warhol and printed during his lifetime. These were never tagged with “sewn-in” Pop Shop labels or produced “commercially” (like the “licensed” goods produced after both artists’ deaths). This was uniquely printed on what simply appears to be a “store-bought” white Hanes cotton t-shirt presumably by Andy Warhol’s late collaborator Rupert Jasen Smith, Jr. in NYC – exclusively for distribution (in a very limited edition) at Keith Haring’s Pop Shop. To my knowledge, this original silkscreen of “Keith Haring” by Andy Warhol does not exist in any other format. I am not aware of this silkscreened image being editioned on paper for example.

The last 2 pictures are not part of this auction but just for reference to the Pop-Shop.