Artist: Keith Haring (American, 1958 - 1990). Title: "The Paris Review [1988 poster]". Medium: Original color silkscreen. Date: Composed 1988. Printed 1988. Dimensions: Overall size: 24 x 32 in. (610 x 813 mm). Lot Note(s): Signed and dated in black marker, lower right; signed and dated in the plate, lower left. Edition size unspecified, presumed extremely small - perhaps a few proofs?. White wove thick paper. Full margins. Fine impression with vibrant colors. Overall very good to fine condition. Literature/catalogue raisonne: Gundel/von der Osten "Keith Haring - Short Messages: Posters" #66. Provenance: Private collection, Sweden, thence to our consignor. Comment(s): This is a very rare poster. Haring created this image for the famous periodical "Paris Review" in 1988. An editioned silkscreen with virtually the same image was printed in 1989. Based on auction records the poster appears far more uncommon than the print. According to 'Gordon's Art Reference' the auction record for the print is $11,250 at Sotheby's, New York, October 30, 2014, lot #239. Gordon's records 51 offerings of the print at auction from 1990 to 2019. During the same period Gordon’s records only a single offering of the poster, at $4,493 (€4,000) by Van Ham Kunstauktionen, Cologne, Germany, 5/31/2017, lot #179. Both the poster and the print are silkscreens. They differ only in the color of the face (green in the poster, blue in the print), and the elimination of the plate signature and date in the print, both present in the poster. Please note our example is the first printing of the silkscreen poster in 1988 and not the offset lithograph later printing by the Haring estate in 1995. Image copyright © The Keith Haring Foundation. [29156-6-2400]