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The Ten Commandments

Ten Commandments (CAPC Bordeaux series)

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Creation date
1985
Type
Painting
Medium
Acrylic and oil on canvas (ten panels)
Dimensions
H 533.4 × W 762 cm
Subject
Haring's personal reinterpretation of the Ten Commandments
Series
The Ten Commandments
Edition size
Unique series of 10 paintings
Exhibitions
  • Keith Haring: The Ten Commandments, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1985; The Ten Commandments, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, 2009
Description
Series of ten paintings, each 17.5 × 25 feet (533.4 × 762 cm), painted for Haring's first one-person museum show at the Contemporary Art Museum (CAPC) in Bordeaux, France in 1985, in which he reinterpreted the Ten Commandments through contemporary moral subjects.
Notes
Date on the Bordeaux interview: December 16, 1985.