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Curators' Picks: July 15 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction
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Frank's Picks
Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art
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One aspect of Rashid Johnson's work that stayed with me after visiting the exhibition at The Modern in Fort Worth was his use of expressive lines and scribbled marks. They feel spontaneous, almost like fragments of thoughts captured before they disappear, yet they are carefully woven into the composition. Rather than explaining or illustrating, these gestures create an emotional energy that encourages viewers to slow down and make their own connections. For me, they suggest that meaning is often found not in certainty, but in the spaces where ideas remain open and evolving.
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Holly's Pick
Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art, West Coast
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Christopher Brown (b. 1951) received his B.F.A. from the University of Illinois and his M.F.A. from UC Davis. He taught at UC Berkeley from 1981 to 1994, serving as Chair of the Department of Art. His work is represented in the collections of the Met, MoMA, the National Gallery of Art, and SFMOMA, among many others. Published by Experimental Workshop in 1991, Winter Mirro
r is one of Brown's most ambitious large-scale color woodcuts, created shortly before he began his long collaboration with Crown Point Press, where he produced a significant body of original etchings. Printed from multiple hand-carved woodblocks, each precisely registered to build successive layers of color, the work exemplifies the atmospheric, dreamlike imagery for which Brown is known, drawing on memory, history, and landscape.
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Rebecca's Pick
Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, New York
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The kinetic energy of Roberto Matta's Comic Strip III (drypoint, 1959) evokes Jean Tinguely's self-destructive sculptures as imagined through the lens of George Herriman, the celebrated creator of Krazy Kat and its mischievous sidekick, Ignatz Mouse. The composition depicts two whirling, stick-like figures with an almost humanoid presence hurling a rock that explodes upon impact. This impression is a signed proof printed before the addition of the colored aquatint plates — a rare preliminary state in black ink. The vibrating, radiating marks of the explosion energize the entire composition, activating the plate and propelling the scene into a dizzying state of controlled chaos.
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Desiree's Pick
Consignment Director, Prints & Multiples, Beverly Hills
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Christo's Orange Store Front Project lithograph is based on one of the artist's early Store Front works, a series developed during the 1960s that marked a pivotal moment in his artistic career. Featuring a vividly colored, fabric-covered storefront façade, the composition explores themes of concealment, transformation, and the reimagining of everyday urban architecture. The lithograph captures Christo's fascination with wrapping and obscuring familiar objects, inviting viewers to reconsider their relationship with the built environment. As an important precursor to his monumental environmental installations, Orange Store Front Project
demonstrates the artist's enduring interest in altering perception through bold color, simple forms, and conceptual intervention.
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Hannah's Pick
Associate Specialist, Prints & Multiples
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Chakaia Booker's work seems to breathe through its surface - creased, pressed, and alive with pressure. In this print, the embossing becomes a kind of physical memory, rising from the paper like scar tissue, palm lines, or oak bark, while the chine collé settles over it with a quieter tenderness like a blanket wrapping around weathered skin. The sheet holds its own pulse: ridges catching light, fibers absorbing it, every mark suggesting the afterlife of touch. Booker turns paper into something charged and bodily, a terrain where material, memory, and sensation gather just beneath the skin.
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Whether you're adding to a world-class collection or searching for a standout statement piece, our July 15 Prints & Multiples Showcase Auction offers an exceptional selection of sought-after works from today's most celebrated artists. Don't miss your opportunity-bidding closes Wednesday, July 15, at 1:00 PM Central Time.
Sincerely,
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Frank Hettig
Vice President,
Modern & Contemporary Art
FrankH@HA.com
(214) 409-1157
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Holly Sherratt
Vice President, Modern & Contemporary Art,
West Coast
HollyS@HA.com
(415) 548-5921
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Desiree Pakravan
Consignment Director,
Prints & Multiples,
Beverly Hills
DesireeP@HA.com
(310) 492-8621
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Rebecca Lax
Consignment Director,
Prints & Multiples,
New York
BeckyL@HA.com
(212) 486-3736
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Hannah Ziesmann
Associate Specialist,
Prints & Multiples
HannahZ@HA.com
(214) 409-1162
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