Created in 1989, just a year before his untimely passing, Keith Haring Pyramid, 1989, stands among Keith Haring’s most powerful and sculpturally resonant works — a synthesis of form, color, and symbol that encapsulates the essence of his artistic vision. Executed on anodized aluminum, the work transforms Haring’s signature visual language — the radiant lines, rhythmic figures, and pulsing energy of his graphic world — into a gleaming, architectural surface that projects both spiritual intensity and industrial precision.

Rendered in a luminous palette of electric blue and radiant yellow, Pyramid reveals Haring’s fascination with the intersection of the ancient and the modern, the mystical and the urban. The pyramid form, long a universal symbol of transcendence, enlightenment, and cosmic order, becomes in Haring’s hands a contemporary icon — stripped of ornament, yet alive with motion and vitality. His figures, often seen as emblems of collective humanity, appear here as hieroglyphs of the modern age: dynamic silhouettes charged with energy, unity, and transcendence.

The choice of anodized aluminum as a medium was both radical and deeply intentional. Its metallic sheen and industrial durability reflect Haring’s engagement with the materials of modern life — signage, street surfaces, and public space — while also giving the work a sacred, reflective quality. The polished surface transforms light into part of the composition, so that the artwork seems to breathe and shift with its surroundings, echoing Haring’s lifelong exploration of movement and transformation.

Pyramid was produced in collaboration with Edition Schellmann, the esteemed Munich and New York publisher known for its partnerships with leading conceptual and contemporary artists of the late twentieth century. With its limited edition of just thirty examples (plus six artist’s proofs), the work occupies a rarefied position within Haring’s printed oeuvre — one of the few pieces to bridge his two- and three-dimensional practices with such elegance and monumentality.

In its combination of spiritual symbolism and Pop immediacy, Pyramid distills the core of Keith Haring’s legacy: a universal visual language that speaks of hope, energy, and the enduring power of human connection. Created at the height of his creative maturity, and in the face of his own mortality, Pyramid radiates an almost sacred light — a beacon of color, optimism, and transcendence that continues to resonate across generations.

Catalogue Raisonné & COA:

Keith Haring Pyramid, 1989 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the sale of the work).

1. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany our Keith Haring Pyramid, 1989.

About the Framing:

Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Keith Haring Pyramid, 1989 is presented in a complementary moulding and finished with silk-wrapped mats and optical grade Plexiglas.

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