Medusa Head

Niels Borch Jensen met Keith Haring in the summer of 1985, when Haring visited Copenhagen to contribute a mural to the exhibition Homo Decorens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. ‘I had installed my first large press earlier that day, and we decided to meet in my studio the next day and make the biggest print we could. I prepared the plates, and when he arrived, he immediately started working, sitting on the floor, without any preliminary sketches or tracings. He started with the figure’s shoulders and built the motive from there. It only took him a few hours to finish all three plates.’
Medusa Head became Niels Borch Jensen’s first large-scale print project, and it is the biggest print Keith Haring ever created.

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Keith Haring

Medusa Head, 1986

Print technique
Sugar lift aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
Paper size 140 x 240 cm
Edition
Edition of 24
Printer
Printed by Niels Borch Jensen
Publisher
Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed by:
Signed and numbered by the artist
Registration no
ID: KeH 86 001-1
Keith Haring

Medusa Head, 1986

Print technique
Sugar lift aquatint on Hahnemühle Bütten 300g
Paper size 140 x 240 cm
Edition
Edition of 24
Printer
Printed by Niels Borch Jensen
Publisher
Published by Niels Borch Jensen Editions
Signed by:
Signed and numbered by the artist
Registration no
ID: KeH 86 001-1

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