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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.
Data quality note
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