Keith Haring Backgammon Checkers Set Game Art Wood Limited Edition New by Vilac

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Limited Edition exquisite Keith Haring Backgammon and Checkers game set

Introduce kids to two classic games — as well as … Read more Limited Edition exquisite Keith Haring Backgammon and Checkers game set

Introduce kids to two classic games — as well as the artist Keith Haring — with this two-sided board that allows you to play both backgammon and checkers!
All the wooden pieces feature the artist's iconographic radiant babies and barking dogs. The colorful backgammon board features a joyful assemblage of dancing characters that will be instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with Haring's work. The black-and-white checkers' board features unexpected pops of color. The 2-game set includes 40 pieces, 20 black and 20 white, four dice, and instructions for playing both games round out the set.

A durable and collectible, colorful backgammon and checkers game set designed in France
Made of painted wood and MDF
Official product © Keith Haring Foundation © Licensed by Artestar New York
Produced by Vilac

Board: 11.8" x 11.8" x 0.39" inches / 30 x 30 x 1cm
Piece diameter: 0.98" inches / 2.5cm

2.64 lbs / 1.2Kg weight unpacked

CONDITION: Brand new / Never used / Within original box

WARNING! EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHILDREN AGED 3+! THIS GAME SET CONTAINS SMALL PARTS.
Laboratory-tested toy, guaranteeing compliance with Directive 2009/48/EC for children aged 3 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 such as 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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