For nearly four decades, the artist Kermit Oswald lived with some of the most intimate works Haring ever made. Now the pieces are going up for auction<\/p>\n
The story of how Keith Haring<\/a> came to paint a crib began on a quiet, ordinary afternoon in 1986. His best friend\u2019s wife was pregnant, and the couple didn\u2019t have the money to buy a new crib for their home in New York City\u2019s Greenpoint neighborhood. \u201cI called my parents to ask if my old crib was still in the attic,\u201d says artist Kermit Oswald, Haring\u2019s friend since childhood. \u201cI got it and I painted it yellow, then Keith came over, we had a few beers and he painted the rest of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Haring is famed as an enduring, globally recognized celebrant of Aids activism, nightlife and the New York Bohemian scene of the 1980s. But he honored his connection with his straight best friend even as he rubbed shoulders with Andy Warhol<\/a>, Robert Mapplethorpe<\/a> and Jean-Michel Basquiat<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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