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Rebecca's Picks
Rebecca Lax | Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, New York
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It is time to take a walk in nature and enjoy Stuart Shedletsky's
interpretation of flowers.
The artist was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1944. He studied
at the Parsons School of Design and the University of New Mexico before
receiving his M.F.A. from Yale University. He spent many years teaching drawing
and painting at Parsons School of Design in New York City. The lithograph
titled Brassia, is carefully hand colored with watercolor
additions in the images of blossoms and leaves. The plant is a genus of orchids
and has about 35 species found throughout the Neotropics from Mexico to Bolivia
and the West Indies. The print of Pink Lady Slippers has
several color lithographic plate runs and the images of the plants float across
the composition without overlapping, flattening out the picture plane.
Two wonderful prints for our summer Showcase auction.
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Stefan Kürten's images depict natural and architectural spaces,
often incorporating decorative motifs from wallpaper and textile design. While
devoid of human presence, the environments bear traces of habitation-spaces
that appear abandoned, gradually overtaken by nature.
Though suggestive of a post-human future, Kürten resists prophetic
interpretations. In a conversation with Lawrence R. Rinder, a contemporary art
curator and museum director (BAM/PFA), the artist describes his work as hauntological:
"It is more concerned with the present, the way we...experience
ourselves and our environments now, and...the past, as we access our memories be
they 'true' or 'false.' The futuristic quality in my images is something from
the future, but it's a future from the past, an optimism laden with bright
promises and bedeviled by moral imperatives."
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Desiree's Picks
Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, Beverly Hills
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Automatism captures the tension between chaos and control, making it a
striking testament to Motherwell's role as a leading figure in Abstract
Expressionism and one of the foremost American printmakers of his generation.
This print-part of his celebrated graphic work from the 1960s and '70s,
reflects his commitment to the automatic process, where intuition
overrides premeditated structure.
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This vibrant lithograph
features Calder's signature biomorphic abstractions-dynamic, colorful forms
that echo the kinetic energy of his mobiles and stabiles. The bold primary
palette and rhythmic composition typify his hand in translating three‑dimensional
talent into flat, graphic form. This is a great edition to add to any
collection!
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Holly's Picks
Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art, West Coast
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Jasper Johns' The Critic Sees (1967) was created for Ten from Castelli, a landmark portfolio published by
Tanglewood Press at a key moment in postwar American art. Featuring ten artists
from Leo Castelli's influential gallery, including Warhol, Lichtenstein, and
Rauschenberg, the project marked a move toward concept-driven work. Johns'
collage of eyes beneath screenprinted eyeglasses on clear plastic suggests that
meaning in art depends less on what is seen than on how it is understood. At a
time when critics held major influence, the piece questioned the authority of
the critical gaze.
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Spanning fifteen years
of innovation, Chuck Close's prints Keith IV State II (1975), Georgia Fingerprint State II (1985), and
Arne (1989) trace the evolution of his approach to
portraiture and printmaking. Keith IV reflects
his early photorealism, using a grid to transform a photograph into a precise
and impersonal likeness. A decade later, Georgia Fingerprint shifts
the focus from facial identity to a single fingerprint, turning a personal
trace into an abstract visual field. In Arne, Close adopts a
more atmospheric style, using spit-bite and aquatint to create subtle tonal
variation and a softer presence. Together, these prints demonstrate Close's
conceptual and technical rigor.
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Taylor's Pick
Taylor Gattinella | Consignment Director, Modern & Contemporary Art, New York
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This large-scale diptych by Ann McCoy presents a luminous, summery
scene full of intricate oceanic imagery. Each lithograph is meticulously
hand-colored with pencil, creating vibrant hues and exquisitely detailed
depictions of marine life. Based in New York, McCoy is an acclaimed artist,
educator, and art critic, best known for her evocative pencil drawings inspired
by dreams, alchemy, and depth psychology. Her work is held in the permanent
collections of major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, MoMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Hannah's Pick
Hannah Ziesmann | Cataloger and Associate Specialist, Fine Arts, Dallas
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May Stevens' evocative print conjures the hazy glow of childhood
summers - the kind spent barefoot and sun-kissed, wandering through woods and
along shorelines. A silhouetted line of children dances across a coastline with
a sense of motion, joy, and tenderness. Behind them, the sky swells with the
colors of a fading sun: a soft wash of lavender, rose, and dusk-blue, layered
with looping, metallic text that mimics the rhythm and intimacy of handwriting.
While in the online image these metallic additions may appear dark, in person,
they shimmer as the gold ink catches light like fireflies emerging as the sun
falls behind the horizon. The writing doesn't just fill the background - it
becomes atmosphere, like crickets at dusk or the hum of a box fan in a childhood
bedroom, making the piece feel not only seen, but remembered.
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Rebecca Lax
Consignment Director,
Prints & Multiples,
New York
BeckyL@HA.com
(212) 486-3736
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Desiree Pakravan
Consignment Director,
Prints & Multiples,
Beverly Hills
DesireeP@HA.com
(310) 492-8621
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Holly Sherratt
Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art,
West Coast
HollyS@HA.com
(415) 548-5921
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Taylor Gattinella
Consignment Director,
Modern & Contemporary Art,
New York
TaylorG@HA.com
(212) 486-3681
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Hannah Ziesmann
Cataloger and Associate Specialist,
Fine Arts, Dallas
HannahZ@HA.com
(214) 409-1162
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