Sproi-i-i-ing! Haring's silkscreen poster, full of childlike kinetic energy, was printed with several different color combinations of this single design to promote the 1983 Montreux Jazz Festival, the 2nd-biggest of its kind in the world, held on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland each year. Of course an artist as popular as Haring would be commissioned for this event – in 1983, the lineup was frankly absurd: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Freddy Hubbard, Buddy Guy, Herbie Hancock, Fats Domino, John Lee Hooker, Rickie Lee Jones and Willie Dixon were all performing.

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Publisher: Albin Uldry, Paris

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Rennert’s Gallery
Keith Haring
Montreux Jazz Festival 1983, 1983
39 1/4 × 27 1/2 in; 99.7 × 69.9 cm
This is a non-editioned multiple.
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