Keith Haring Chess Set Game Art Colorful Toy Wooden Box New by Vilac

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Limited Edition exquisite Keith Haring colorful chess set game

Enjoy a more dynamic game of chess with this set featuring … Read more Limited Edition exquisite Keith Haring colorful chess set game

Enjoy a more dynamic game of chess with this set featuring iconographic pieces adapted from some of Keith Haring's most beloved works. Setting cool blue and green against warm red and orange on the other, the Keith Haring colorful chess set features pawns made of Haring's radiant babies/dogs and larger pieces made from stacks of two animated human figures interacting, all offset by the artist’s signature black outlines.
The set includes a white fabric bag to hold the pieces when not in use that features the artist's 1989 self-portrait. The set board folds in half for storage, fitting all the pieces inside, and closes with a latch to keep everything secure.

A durable and collectible, colorful chess set designed in France
Made of turned and lacquered wood
Official product © Keith Haring Foundation © Licensed by Artestar New York
Produced by Vilac

Open board: 15.7" x 15.7" x 0.98" inches / 40 x 40 x 2.5cm
Pawn BABY height: 0.5" inches / 2.3cm
Pawn DOG height: 0.98" inches / 2.5cm
King height: 2.5" inches / 7.1cm

2.86 lbs / 1.3Kg weight unpacked

CONDITION: Brand new / Never used /
Some pieces have some tiny chips from bad storage

WARNING! EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHILDREN AGED 6+
Laboratory-tested toy, guaranteeing compliance with Directive 2009/48/EC for children aged 6 and over

Wikipedia: "Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows, including Documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.

Haring's popularity grew from his spontaneous drawings in New York City subways — chalk outlines of figures, dogs, and other stylized images on blank black advertising spaces. After gaining public recognition, he created colorful scale murals, many of which were commissioned. He produced more than 50 public artworks between 1982 and 1989, many of them created voluntarily for hospitals, daycare centers, and schools. In 1986, he opened the Pop Shop as an extension of his work. His later work often conveyed political and societal themes — anti-crack, anti-apartheid, safe sex, homosexuality, and AIDS— through his iconography.

Haring died on February 16, 1990, of AIDS. In 2014, he was one of the inaugural honorees in the Rainbow Honor Walk in San Francisco, a walk of fame noting LGBTQ people who have "made significant contributions in their fields". In 2019, he was one of the inaugural 50 American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument in New York City's Stonewall Inn."

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