Street Artist, Pioneer and Activist – Keith Haring’s Biggest Graphic Work is Coming Up for Auction

Keith Haring was one of the most influential visual artists of the late 20th century and a key member of a group of avant-garde New York-based artists in the 1980s. The distinctive work, which is set to go under the hammer at Bruun Rasmussen, is the largest graphic work ever produced by Haring. The work “Untitled (Medusa)” from 1986 is executed in Haring’s iconic, linear style. The motif is a Hydra-like figure, with multiple necks branching out into individual bodies. “Keith Haring’s works are the epitome of New York’s art scene in the 1980s, but this work was created by the artist in Copenhagen and is therefore – unbeknown to many – a Danish slice of the legendary artist’s life and work,” explains Niels Boe-Hauggaard, Bruun Rasmussen’s Head of the Department of Modern Art. His Biggest Ever Print The story behind the Medusa work is to be found in Copenhagen at the BORCH Editions printmaking studio. The renowned Danish copper printmaker Niels Borch Jensen met Keith Haring in the summer of 1985, when Haring visited Copenhagen in connection with the ‘Homo Decorens’ exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk. “I had installed my first large press earlier...