Keith Haring - Montreux Jazz Festival, 1983 - Yellow

Keith Haring - Montreux Jazz Festival, 1983 - Yellow

The first official exhibition of Keith Haring’s work was held in 1982 at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, and was hugely successful. Pierre Keller met Haring a few months later and asked him to produce a Festival poster featuring a dancing figure. Haring came up with three designs, all of which were accepted. Keller and Nobs had the brainwave of inviting the New York artist to Montreux. As always, Haring painted constantly, producing murals on large blank panels on stage with the musicians and in the streets of Montreux.

• Screenprint
• Printed on half-matte coated paper 250gr
• 70 x 100 cm

Since 1967, Montreux Jazz Festival has entrusted the creation of its official poster to Swiss and international artists. Keith Haring produced a trio of posters in 1983, then teamed up with Andy Warhol for another in 1986. David Bowie produced a poster in 1995, and more recently Yoann Lemoine (aka Woodkid) and Malika Favre have done the same.