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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

Keith Haring painting cut from artist’s bedroom wall to be sold at auction

Keith Haring's Radiant Baby painting.
‘It was hidden in this house all these years, completely unknown’: Keith Haring’s Radiant Baby. Photograph: Rago/Wright

In 2004, on a bike ride through Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Scott and Angela Garner came across their dream home: a brick-built Victorian house with shutters on the windows and a wide porch at the front.

Inside was something completely unexpected. On the wall of a small downstairs room was a five-inch drawing just above the light switch. It was Radiant Baby, one of the most recognisable images of the wildly successful 1980s pop artist and activist Keith Haring, drawn in gold on a vibrant blue background in his childhood bedroom.

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