This is a black-and-white image with bold outlines picturing a baby, nuclear symbol, and other abstracted figures.
Poster for Nuclear Disarmament

1982

Printed signature and date, l.r.; Also hand-signed, dated, and inscribed, verso

Offset lithograph print on glazed paper

24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm)

$5,000

This was Keith Haring’s first poster. He paid to have twenty thousand copies printed, and on June 2, 1982, he transported the stack in a handcart to what was the largest demonstration to date against nuclear weapons and the arms race, which took place in Central Park in New York with one million protesters. Haring handed out his posters for free.

In addition to being signed and dated in the plate, this poster is hand-signed, dated, and inscribed on the reverse.

Published:
Ives-Sillman, New Haven, Connecticut.

Literature:
Blinderman, Barry, William S. Burroughs, et.al., Keith Haring: Future Primeval, 1990, Normal, University Galleries, Illinois State University with Abbeville Press, New York, p.98, illus. (sumi ink study for the poster)
Sussman, Elisabeth, Jeffrey Deitch, David Frankel, Robert Pincus-Witten, et.al, Keith Haring, 1997, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 138, illus. (an unsigned example)
Deitch, Jeffrey, Suzanne Geiss, and Julia Gruen, Keith Haring, 2008, New York, Rizzoli, pp.228 – 231, illus. (an unsigned example)

Work by Keith Haring (1958-1990)