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Keith Haring — Untitled
Keith Haring

Untitled

1980

This energetic black and white composition presents a chaotic narrative of extraterrestrial visitation and earthly disruption. A pyramid shaped spacecraft descends upon an urban landscape, its beam capturing and displacing human figures rendered in the artist's characteristic linear style. The dense composition layers multiple scenes of bewilderment and panic, with small human figures scattered throughout the composition, some in orderly rows, others in scattered disarray. The work employs repetitive motifs and rapid gestural marks to convey movement, urgency, and the overwhelming scale of cosmic intrusion upon human civilization.

Medium
paper
Overall
Location
Sotheby's, New York, NY

Notes

Contemporary Day Auction, Sotheby's, sale on 2026-05-15.

🔨 Auction Lot

Contemporary Day Auction

May 15, 2026

Estimate: $250,000 to $350,000

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Keith Haring, Untitled, 1980

This energetic black and white composition presents a chaotic narrative of extraterrestrial visitation and earthly disruption. A pyramid shaped spacecraft descends upon an urban landscape, its beam capturing and displacing human figures rendered in the artist's characteristic linear style. The dense composition layers multiple scenes of bewilderment and panic, with small human figures scattered throughout the composition, some in orderly rows, others in scattered disarray. The work employs repetitive motifs and rapid gestural marks to convey movement, urgency, and the overwhelming scale of cosmic intrusion upon human civilization.

Medium
paper
Dimensions
overall: 27.9 x 21.6 cm
Year
1980
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Science Fiction, Spacecraft UFO, Gestural Marks, Figurative Illustration, Urban Disruption, Extraterrestrial Contact, Black And White, Pop Art, Comic Style, Alien Invasion, Chaos And Order, Mass Panic, Contemporary Art, Visual Storytelling, Apocalyptic Narrative, Human Figures, Dystopian Vision, Ink Drawing

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Jim Arnone, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Lisa Rembrandt, Carolyn Lynx, Becky Tompkins, Susanne Cooper, Ryan, Derek Jones, Patrick Wesley, Brittany Laques