Artists: Andy Warhol (1930-1987), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Keith Haring (1958-1990), Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) & Yoko Ono (1933- )

For me this poster is all about The Paradise Garage (84 King St, New York, NY 10014).! Can you imagine Larry Levan DJ’ing Keith Haring and Basquiat on the dance floor? It must have been an epic evening all in the name of love!

Curated and organized by Keith Haring, Rain Dance was a benefit for UNICEF’s African Emergency Relief Fund: Pop Art’s contribution to pop music’s Live Aid that same year. This poster—now considered to be an iconic piece of the Pop era—stemmed out of Warhol’s system of collaborating upon the same canvas with a variety of his protégées. Here, he joins forces with Lichtenstein, Haring, Basquiat, and Yoko Ono to create a unified, exciting composition. “This poster reflects the créme de la créme of New York’s artistic and social circles in 1985. Water, so essential to combat drought and famine prevailing in Ethiopia, was the poster’s principal message and its theme, rain, is treated from different perspectives by each of the artists: graphic (Lichtenstein’s oblique lines), practical (Warhol’s umbrellas), ethnographic (the rain dance by Haring), political (Basquiat, combining the homophones rain and reign), and geographic (Ono, whose footsteps illustrate Africans’ long walks to reach rare water sources)” (Warhol Posters, p. 116).

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Size: 56cm x 79cm / 22” x 31” inches