Auction: April 16

Our curators picked their favorite items from our upcoming April 16 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction
Join us for an exceptional Showcase auction celebrating bold visions and timeless technique. Highlights include Damien Hirst's For the Love of God, a striking meditation on mortality and luxury; Keith Haring's International Volunteer Day, pulsing with the artist's unmistakable energy and activism; and a captivating selection of Marc Chagall's color lithographs, alive with dreamlike color and poetic symbolism. From contemporary provocateurs to modern masters, this curated auction offers a rare opportunity to collect works that resonate across generations.
| Desiree's Picks Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, Beverly Hills
Marc Chagall Paradise, 1960
There is something so poetic about this color lithograph. Chagall's Paradise is a brilliant vision of love, faith, and imagination-a dreamscape where the earthly and the divine gently intertwine. Adam and Eve are intertwined and floating below what appears to be the Tree of Knowledge. The figural dove floating above the tree symbolizes peace. In Paradise, joy is both spiritual and sensual, offering an ethereal quality to this print.
Josef Albers MM Variant, 1968
Josef Albers' MM Variant is a masterclass in precision, perception, and the emotional power of color. Part of his iconic Homage to the Square series, this print explores the optical tension between nested squares, inviting the viewer into a meditative experience of depth and balance. Through subtle shifts in hue and tone, Albers challenges our understanding of space and form, proving that even the simplest geometry can evoke profound complexity. MM is not just a study in abstraction—it's a quiet, disciplined celebration of how color alone can shape what we see and feel. It would make a great addition to any art collection!
| Rebecca's Picks Rebecca Lax | Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, New York
Salvador Dalí Earth Mother (Cybele), 1975
Cybele, also known as Magna Mater or the Great Mother, was a Phrygian goddess of nature, fertility, and the mountain wilds, whose cult spread to Greece and eventually to Rome. Her worship was characterized by orgiastic rituals, and the priests of Cybele were eunuchs, offering their own fertility to the goddess. Often identified with the Greek goddess Rhea, the Great Mother of the Gods, Cybele represents the nurturing force of motherhood. This theme of motherhood is expressed in the Dali bronze, where a cascade of breast-like shapes flows down the front of the figure. The delicately rendered, Greek-inspired head rises above, perched on a slender neck. In true Daliesque fashion, this representation of Cybele features a drawer embedded in her forehead, making the piece a striking example of Surrealism. The sculpture also evokes the work of Louise Bourgeois, who explored themes of motherhood in her own art. For instance, her latex sculpture Avenza (1968-1969), which became part of her Confrontation series (1978), reflects similar explorations of maternal symbolism.
Ed Ruscha Actual Size (Spam), 2024
This print features a reproduction of Ed Ruscha's 1962 painting Actual Size. The image depicts a can of SPAM soaring through a cosmic landscape of expressive blue paint splashes, beneath a striking rendition of the word "SPAM." The painting and its closely related print edition represent a masterful exploration of the artist's study of fonts and typefaces, echoing his early text-based works. The image of the can in the painting is depicted at its actual size, and the text celebrates the bold, rounded letters that spell "SPAM." Introduced by Hormel Foods in 1937, SPAM is a canned meat product made from ground pork shoulder and ham. The food gained widespread popularity during World War II as an easily transportable, protein-rich option for troops. The painting is currently on view at the Broad Contemporary Art Museum, third floor (as of April 2025). The print edition, released on April 11, 2024, by publisher Avant Arte, sold out immediately. The print edition features an orange peel-like texture in the yellow sections and letters, adding a playful dimensionality to the work.
| Taylor's Picks Taylor Gattinella | Consignment Director, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York
Richard Diebenkorn Blue Softground, 1985
Richard Diebenkorn's Blue Softground from 1985 is a striking example of his refined approach to color and form in printmaking. The etching features soft, layered blue tones and subtle textures that evoke a contemplative, atmospheric quality. It reflects Diebenkorn's deep exploration of spatial relationships and his continued interest in the balance between abstraction and suggestion of landscape.
Pablo Picasso La Seductrice, from La Série 156, 1971
This month, Heritage is offering three etchings from La Série 156, Pablo Picasso's final print series, completed in 1972—less than a year before his death. These works showcase Picasso's unrelenting creativity and mastery of printmaking in his final years. The series reflects his enduring fascination with themes of sensuality, aging, and voyeurism. Deeply personal and often introspective, each etching is rendered with bold, expressive lines and raw emotional intensity.
| Hannah's Picks Hannah Ziesmann | Cataloguer, Fine Arts, Dallas
Kiki Smith Untitled (Outdoors), 1997
In Outdoors , Kiki Smith arranges a quiet, reverent meditation on the raw pulse of the natural world. Composed as a grid of twelve inkjet-printed photographs, the work weaves together fragments of sky, stream, stone, and root—each image a moment suspended in time. Brooding clouds drift above restless water; gnarled roots clutch the earth in silent tension. Smith's work pulls me back to childhood afternoons in the deep south of Atlanta, Georgia, where I grew up—barefoot in cold creeks, darting between mossy rocks and tangled roots, the air thick with the scent of wet earth, weaving through kudzu-covered trees, running home before the storm rolls in. Like the flick of porch lights from my watchful mother summoning me home for dinner, Smith's hand is gentle and observant, listening to nature and allowing it to communicate. Smith invites us to remember how it once felt to crinkle leaves under one's toes and hear the gentle rumbles of thunder in the distance.
Russell Young Easy Rider, 2007
Russell Young's, Easy Rider, harnesses the mythos of American rebellion and recasts it through his signature screenprint style - bold, cinematic, and unapologetically seductive. The image, lifted from Dennis Hopper's cult classic, thrums with nostalgia and defiance: a still moment turned iconic, drenched in monochromatic contrast and glittering with a rock-and-roll sheen. It's not just about the film - it's about the fantasy it offered: freedom on two wheels, wind in your hair, the road as salvation. Yet beneath the glamor, there's a trace of melancholy, a recognition that the dream was always a little bruised. Young doesn't just immortalize the rebel - he questions what we were really chasing.
Browse and bid on these unique works in our April 16 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction. Sincerely,
|  | Desiree Pakravan Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, Beverly Hills DesireeP@HA.com (310) 492-8621
|  | Rebecca Lax Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, New York BeckyL@HA.com (212) 486-3736
|  | Taylor Gattinella Consignment Director, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York TaylorG@HA.com (212) 486-3681
|  | Hannah Ziesmann Cataloguer, Fine Arts, Dallas HannahZ@HA.com (214) 409-1162
|  | Frank Hettig Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art FrankH@HA.com (214) 409-1157
|  | Holly Sherratt Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art, West Coast HollyS@ha.com (415) 548-5921