Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist in 1983)
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's S|2, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

New York, Sotheby's S|2, Keith Haring: Shine On, March - April 2012, cat. no. 8, p. 26, illustrated in color

This work is in good condition overall. Under close inspection, some light surface soiling and minor abrasions are visible throughout the work. There are two areas of noticeable loss to the wooden support at the upper right corner and middle of the lower edge, both of which are possibly inherent to the artist's chosen medium. Framed under Plexiglas.
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"I was thinking about these images as symbols, as a vocabulary of things. In one a dog’s being worshiped by these people. In another one the dog is being zapped by a flying saucer. Suddenly it made sense to draw on the street, because I had something to say. I made this person crawling on all fours, which evolved into the 'baby.' And there was an animal being, which now has evolved into the dog. They really were representational of human and animal. In different combinations they were about the difference between human power and the power of animal instinct."

Keith Haring