Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sketch of Keith Haring

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) — Sketch of Keith Haring, 1983

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were close contemporaries on New York’s early-1980s downtown scene, their work shown alongside each other in the same East Village galleries and warehouse exhibitions that first brought graffiti-rooted art into the gallery system. This sketch, dated to Milan in October 1983, captures Haring mid-sitting, wearing a shirt printed with his own barking-dog motif, alongside a caricatured profile labelled “Side View” and a speech bubble reading “Famous.”

Offered here as a print reproduction rather than an original work on paper, this example is unnumbered and unsigned. We hold two framed examples of this print.

Available through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.

Print reproduction
33 × 47 cm (sheet); 50 × 65 cm (framed)
Unnumbered, unsigned