Keith Haring Gouache on paper

Title: Figures Lifting a Television

Technique: Gouache on paper

Measures: 11 x 9 inches (approximately 27.9 x 22.9 cm)

Year: Undated

Condition: Appears in good overall condition. The work displays bright, flat colors, crisp contours, and clearly defined graphic elements. Minor surface wear, small scattered flecks in the black lower band, and age-related imperfections may be present. Presented under glazing in a brown frame with a mottled stone-like finish. Condition is described from the photographs supplied. Please review all photographs carefully, as they form an integral part of the condition description.

Provenance: Private collection, San Francisco, California; reportedly purchased privately in the early 1990s. Specific prior provenance was not supplied.

Visual Description: A lively Pop Art-inspired composition depicting four animated blue figures gathered around an oversized orange television set. Two figures at the base raise the television overhead, while two others leap energetically at the upper corners. On the screen, a green figure marked with a bold X lifts its arms amid radiating motion lines, as if bursting from the broadcast. The bright yellow background is densely filled with orange zigzags, spirals, dots, and symbolic marks, while a black band patterned with red ovals anchors the lower edge. Rendered in the street-art style of Keith Haring, the work emphasizes simplified human forms, graphic energy, and playful social commentary, recalling the artist’s celebrated reflections on media, technology, and popular culture in 1980s New York.

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