Basquiat, Jean M. - 1985 - Paradise Garage New York (Rain Dance - together with Haring, Lichtenstein, Ono, Warhol)

Basquiat, Jean M.
born 1960 in USA - Brooklyn, NY, died 1988 in USA - New York

Haring, Keith
born 1958 in USA - Kutztown, died 1990 in USA - New York

Lichtenstein, Roy
born 1923 in USA - New York, died 1997 in USA - New York

Ono, Yoko
born 1933 in Tokyo

Warhol, Andy
born 1928 in USA - Pittsburgh, died 1987 in USA - New York

Paradise Garage New York
title: Rain Dance
subtitle: A Benefit for the African Emergency Relief Fund
poster to a charity event to the benefit for UNICEF

1985
colour offset-lithograph on strong paper
79 cm x 56 cm
good condition
(see additional pictures)


order no. 16544

About the motive of the poster:
"By the mid- 1980s, lengthy droughts in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia were followed by severe famines. The title of the poster is a reference to the rain dance rituals of certain Native North American tribes. This collaboration, largely the work of Keith Haring, was created for the UNICEF-run Africa Emergency Relief Fund."
(Döring 2011, p. 143)

About the design of the poster:
"Lichtenstein supplied one of his landscapes for the poster, initiated by Haring, and Warhol provided the umbrellas, Basquiat a black figure with a poem, and Yoko Ono the footprints."
(Döring/Von der Osten 2017, p.110, no. 25)

catalogue raisonné:

Gundel, Marc, Keith Haring - Short Messages, mit einem Werkverzeichnis der Plakate von Claus von der Osten, München u.a. 2002, no. 19
Döring, Jürgen: Phantasie an die Macht - Politik im Künstlerplakat / Power to the Imagination - Artists, Posters and Politics, ed. by Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 2011, p.142 f.
Maréchal, Paul: Andy Warhol - the complete commissioned posters, 1964-1987, catalogue raisonné, München u.a. 2014, no.41, p.116 f.
Döring, Jürgen und Claus von der Osten: Keith Haring - Posters, exhibition cat. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg 2017, no. 25