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Photography by Dero Sanford
Two-Headed Figure
As a graffiti artist based in New York City during the early 1980s, Haring developed a style that was instantly recognizable. His simplified outlines of people and animals, which first appeared in chalk on subway walls, developed into a bold, bright style in later paintings, murals, and sculptures such as Two-Headed Figure. An activist in his art and life, Haring engaged with events and issues that marked the 1980s, such as war, race, religion, sexuality, and the AIDS crisis. Haring died of AIDS-related complications at the age of 31.
ArtistKeith Haring(1958-1990)
Date1986
MediumPolyurethane paint on aluminum
Dimensions83 x 96 x 56 in. (210.8 x 243.8 x 142.2 cm)
Signed[artist's signature] 86
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, Made possible by Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr, 2012.496
ClassificationSculpture
Provenance(Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY); to Private Collection, 1987; to (Sotheby’s, New York, NY), November 14, 2012, sale N08901, lot 212; purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2012
On ViewYes
This artwork's face covers about 7.4× the area of a standard movie poster.Drawn to the same scale.
