Keith Haring (Attributed) — “World Trade Center,” Drawing on Paper Bag

IMPORTANT: This work CANNOT be authenticated and is offered STRICTLY AS-IS. Please read the full description.

What You Are Getting

This piece came out of the estate of an affluent pop-art collector, acquired together with a group of other pop works. It is a drawing on a brown paper bag — a bold rendering of the World Trade Center towers reimagined as a phallic form, in the cheeky, sexually candid spirit that runs throughout Keith Haring’s work. The image is captioned “WORLD TRADE CENTER” and signed “© K. Haring” with a date at lower right (see the close-up photos). It is float-matted with a black suede liner in an ornate antique-style gold frame in excellent condition. Extremely rare and truly one-of-a-kind — for the collector who enjoys the hunt, the research, and the story as much as the object itself.

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Print Details

Attributed to	Keith Haring (1958–1990) — UNAUTHENTICATED
Subject	“World Trade Center” — Twin Towers reimagined as a phallic form
Image source	Documented Haring composition from his “Manhattan Penis Drawings” series (late 1970s); the book indexes this drawing by number to 7th Avenue & Bleecker Street, NYC. Published by Nieves
Medium	Graphite/pencil & marker, hand-drawn
Support	Brown kraft paper / paper bag
Inscription	Captioned “WORLD TRADE CENTER”; signed “© K. Haring” with date at lower right (see photos)
Frame	Ornate antique-style gold frame with black suede mat liner; excellent condition
Size	18.5 × 15.5 in (framed)
Provenance	From a private pop-art collector’s estate, alongside other pop-art works
Authentication	None. The Keith Haring Foundation disbanded its Authentication Committee in 2012 and will not review works. Sold strictly as-is.
Condition	Frame in excellent condition; paper shows age-appropriate toning and handling. Please review all photos, which form part of the description

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About the Work

A documented Keith Haring composition. The “World Trade Center” motif seen here — the Twin Towers reimagined as a phallic form — is a genuine, published Keith Haring image. It belongs to Haring’s celebrated series of Manhattan landmarks drawn as penises, created in the late 1970s and collected in his official book Keith Haring: Manhattan Penis Drawings for Ken Hicks (Nieves). In that book each drawing is numbered and indexed in the back to the Manhattan intersection that inspired it — and this Twin Towers drawing is logged at the corner of 7th Avenue and Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village, the downtown vantage from which the World Trade Center towers rose on the southern skyline. It is one of a whole volume of playful, sexually candid Manhattan drawings — cartoonish on the surface but laced with Haring’s lifelong interest in power, sex, and politics. As a physical piece this is an extremely unusual subject to encounter; in our experience we have never seen a ‘World Trade Center’ example offered — a genuinely one-of-a-kind, hand-drawn object.

Full transparency. That the image is a documented Haring composition is not the same as certification of this object. Keith Haring’s market is shadowed by fakes and homages, and the Keith Haring Foundation permanently disbanded its Authentication Committee in 2012, so no body will confirm or deny a work like this. We do not represent this as a guaranteed original Haring. It is offered strictly as-is and unauthenticated, for the buyer to evaluate from the detailed photographs and reach their own conclusion — priced accordingly, not as a certified blue-chip original.

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About Keith Haring

Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990) was a central figure of the 1980s New York art scene, emerging from the subway-drawing and graffiti culture of downtown Manhattan. His instantly recognizable visual language — radiant babies, barking dogs, dancing figures, bold black outlines, and a frank, playful treatment of sexuality — turned activism and desire into a universal pop iconography. His work is held by major museums worldwide, and his market remains among the most active — and most counterfeited — of any 20th-century artist, which is precisely why independent due diligence matters on any unauthenticated work.

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What Is Included

• One (1) framed drawing on paper bag attributed to Keith Haring, 18.5 × 15.5 in, in an ornate gold frame with black suede mat. Sold as-is, unauthenticated.

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Shipping & Handling

Ships from the San Francisco Bay Area, fully insured, primarily via UPS. Prints are shipped flat, sandwiched between rigid backing boards inside a heavy-duty stay-flat mailer to protect the corners and prevent creasing. Tracking on every order. Combined shipping available on multiple purchases — message before paying and we will adjust the invoice.