December 17 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction: Browse the auction

December 17 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction
Session Times
Session 1*: Lots: 41001-41065: 1:00 PM CT, Wednesday, December 17
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Curators' Picks
| Desiree's Picks Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, Beverly Hills
Josef Albers Homage to the Square I-S K, 1973
In Homage to the Square I-S K, color becomes its own quiet universe. Albers arranges nested squares like softly resonant tones, each color leaning gently into the next, creating a pulse that feels both measured and infinite. The composition is still, yet alive, a meditation on how color breathes, how it warms or cools with the slightest shift in value. In this subtle choreography of edges and planes, Albers offers not a picture of the world, but a place to rest inside pure perception.
George Rodrigue Chicken in a Basket: Yellow Moon, 1993
This print is so whimsical and one of my favorite editions in this sale. The bright chickens sit perched in their baskets like secret guardians of the bayou, illuminated by a moon that glows with dreamlike intensity. Shadows stretch and colors hum, turning the familiar into something enchanted. Rodrigue invites us into a world where folklore mingles with quiet humor, and a reminder that even the smallest creatures can carry a touch of mystery when the world is lit by moonlight.
| Rebecca's Picks Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, New York
Alex Katz Bicycling in Central Park, from New York, New York, Deluxe Edition, 1982
A great Alex Katz print of a young woman biking in Central Park, a superb image depicting a beautiful scene in New York city. The composition is dynamic because it is a meeting of Katz’s studies of trees and nature along with his iconic flattened figure. This composition is all about the surround, the woman is rendered in pale colors and the surrounding colors are super saturated. The biker zooms passed a sun dappled canopy of trees, in her complimentary outfit of orange and blue. This print is offered individually out of its’ folio (New York, New York) and the other prints from that same edition number, 116/250, are the Larry Rivers and the James Rosenquist. Those lots also on offer in this auction.
Alexander Calder Le point de non retour, from La Memoire Elementaire, 1976
Alexander Calder Two Works, from Flying Colors, 1974
Alexander Calder One Work, from Flying Colors, 1974
Come celebrate Alexander Calder this month, the artist’s Circus work has been newly installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on display from October 18 – March 9, 2026. Calder said about the Circus work, that he loved, "...the mechanics of the thing—and the vast space—and the spotlight." In this auction we have four colorful lithographs, two of which are in one lot. Calder’s exuberance as an artist, beyond his mastery of his striking abstract shapes in 3D (the immense sculptures and hanging mobiles) and 2D, was his striking use of the primary colors (red, yellow and blue) and an adept drawing style. He was wonderfully experimental in a childlike exploration of all things kinetic and playful.
| Holly's Picks Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art, West Coast
Roy Lichtenstein Lincoln Center Poster, 1966
In 1966, Lincoln Center invited leading artists to reimagine its visual identity. Roy Lichtenstein responded with a poster for the 4th New York Film Festival at a moment when Pop Art was reshaping American culture. Treating the assignment as a fine-art project, he produced a deluxe screenprint on reflective silver foil that evokes the gleam of film reels and projector light. The metallic ground sharpens his bold colors and Ben-Day dots, giving the image a crisp, cinematic charge that reflects the sleek modernity of mid-century movie culture. Printed in a relatively small edition, the silver-foil version rises above its promotional purpose and remains a defining example of Lichtenstein’s work.
Sam Francis Five Coral Screen, 1972
Five Coral Screen comes from Sam Francis’s collaboration with Gemini G.E.L., the LA workshop known for its innovative approach to printmaking. At Gemini, Francis used screenprinting to test how layered color could shape space. The five-color composition—built through translucent applications of coral, red, and related tones—shows his interest in creating depth through deliberately placed passages of color. Gemini’s printers brought technical skill to the project and produced the precise shifts in hue and density he wanted. The print reflects his move in the early 1970s toward more open structures, giving the composition an expansive feel.
| Taylor's Picks Consignment Director, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York
Jacob Lawrence Dondon, from Toussaint L'overture, 1992
Heritage has been pleased to offer Jacob Lawrence’s The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture in our 2025 Prints & Multiples auctions. The series consists of fifteen silkscreens that honor the Haitian revolutionary leader who fought to free his country from colonial rule, establishing the first independent Black republic. Lawrence charts key moments in Toussaint’s life, from enslavement to leadership, victory, betrayal, and an enduring legacy. Based on his first narrative painting cycle from 1936, the series reflects Lawrence’s early research and his commitment to foregrounding figures of African descent in the struggle for justice. Check back in 2026 for more works from the series!
Gwendolyn Knight New Orleans, 2002
Gwendolyn Knight was another key American artist, whose work centered on intimate portraits, expressive depictions of everyday life, and themes drawn from the Harlem Renaissance community that shaped her early career. Knight was also a key artistic partner, and wife, to Jacob Lawrence, nurturing his practice while sustaining her own distinct and deeply personal creative voice. This screenprint from 2002 was likely inspired by Knight and Lawrence's time spent in New Orleans, where they moved shortly after marrying. The city's vibrant culture reflected in her work through saturated color and bold forms.
| Hannah's Picks Cataloguer, Fine Arts, Dallas
After René Magritte La philosophie et la peinture de René Magritte (complete portfolio, 10 works), 1979 (posthumously printed)
La philosophie et la peinture de René Magritte is a dream unbound – an elegant distillation of Magritte’s lifelong pursuit to reconcile image and idea, reality and illusion. These prints, produced after the artist but with fidelity to his vision, bring together many of his most enduring motifs: the faceless bowler-hatted man, figures morphing into their backgrounds, a quietly defiant green apple. In typical Magritte fashion, objects are rendered with precision yet displaced from logic, inviting viewers to dwell not in answers but in absurdity. A cloud squeezes itself into the lip of an empty coupe, curtains unattached to wall nor window part to reveal sky, and everyday objects take on a quiet, revolutionary magic. Surrealism here is not spectacle, but philosophy – a whispered visual question: Is anything ever quite what it seems?
Robert Deyber When Pigs Fly
As any good Cincinnatian will tell you: pigs fly. Cincinnati, my birthplace, adopted the flying pig motif as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to its industrial past, when it was proudly known as "Porkopolis." Today, winged pig sculptures are scattered throughout the city, celebrating its history with a wink and reminding residents and visitors alike that even the most unlikely things can take flight. Robert Deyber’s lithograph immediately transported me home – I could almost smell the Skyline Chili. His work channels the spirit of surrealism, and with that same Cincinnati sense of humor, he lifts the old idiom "when pigs fly" straight into the clouds. The scene unfolds with quiet absurdity: three plump pigs float through a cotton-candy sky, wings outstretched, as though they’ve always belonged there. Like Cincinnati’s embrace of the improbable, Deyber invites us to meet the impossible not with skepticism, but with delight – to believe, if only for a moment, that the surreal is simply the real, seasoned with a spoonful of imagination.
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