May 7 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction: Browse the auction

May 7 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction
Session Times
Session 1: Lots: 88001-88076: 11:00 AM CT, Thursday, May 7
Featured Items
Jean Dubuffet Site avec trois Personnages, 1981
KAWS UNTITLED (MBFG7), 2014
Fernando Botero Untitled (double-sided)
Takeo Yamaguchi Yellow Assembly, 1964
Ai Weiwei Colored Vases (thirteen works), 2013
George Morrison Palisade, 1958
David Bates Sisters, 1985
Angel Botello Rey con caballo, circa 1970
Zdzislaw Beksiński Untitled, 1971
Press Room
A Defining Moment for George Morrison When Heritage Auctions set an auction record for George Morrison last year, it did not feel like an outlier, but part of a shift that's been building. For years, Morrison's work traded quietly relative to its significance, particularly when considered alongside his peers in postwar American abstraction. His market developed largely outside the spotlight, driven by informed collectors rather than public spectacle. As institutional recognition has expanded, especially beyond Morrison's native Midwest, that underlying demand is now starting to register more visibly at auction. Born in Chippewa City, Minnesota, an Ojibwe fishing village along Lake Superior, Morrison maintained a deep connection to place throughout his career. Even as he moved within the New York art world, that early landscape remained central. He returned to it repeatedly, not as subject, but as structure and memory. This sensibility, shaped by his training at the Art Students League and his proximity to the Abstract Expressionist circle, informed a practice grounded in material exploration and a sustained engagement with environment. Palisade, available in Heritage's May 7 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature® Auction, arrives at a moment when this reassessment is fully underway. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent exhibition examining Morrison's early years in New York places his work within the core of the Abstract Expressionist movement, in dialogue with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and Philip Guston. Archival material and early paintings reveal an artist deeply engaged with the dominant ideas of the period, while already developing a distinct visual language. Read the full article
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