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Hermann Max Pechstein

Russian Ballet [Russisches Ballett I], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=max+pechstein&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hermann Max Pechstein</a>, 1912.<ul><li>Hermann Max Pechstein (German, 1881-1955).</li><li>Etching and acquatint on Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 100.</li><li>Printed for inclusion in Die Brücke VII [The Bridge VII], published in 1912.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Russian Ballet | Russisches Ballett I

Three Acrobats [Drei Akrobaten], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=marc+chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1923-1957.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Etching on MBM paper.</li><li>Hand signed and inscribed.</li><li>Part of an edition of 50.</li><li>Printed by Louis Fort, Paris.</li><li>Published by Paul Haasen, Paris.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This is an extremely rare artist’s proof of the second state printed in 1923 before the final state and subsequent edition of 50 in 1957.

Three Acrobats | Drei Akrobaten

Henri Matisse

Frontispiece, from Fifty Drawings [Frontispiece, from Cinquante Dessins], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henri+Matisse&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Matisse</a>, 1950-1951.<ul><li>Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954).</li><li>Etching on Chine applique to Arches paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 1000.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching is hand signed in black ink by the artist "Henri Matisse" at the lower right margin. The work is from the edition of 1,000 published alongside 50 reproductions of the artist’s drawings with text in French by Charles Vildrac. It was printed by Victor Jacquemin, Paris on 18th September 1920 and published by the artist.&nbsp;The work has been inscribed with the number 761/1000 by another hand in the lower left corner.

Frontispiece, from: Fifty Drawings| Frontispiece, from: Cinquante Dessins

Donald Sultan

Japanese Pines by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Donald+Sultan&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donald Sultan</a>, 2008.<ul><li>Donald Sultan (American, born 1951).</li><li>Print on handmade paper.</li><li>Signed in pencil along the left margin and numbered lower right.</li><li>Part of an edition of 75, 14 AP.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Japanese Pines

Jacques Villon

The Small Mechanical Workshop [Le Petit Atelier de Mécanique], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Jacques+Villon&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jacques Villon</a>, 1914.<ul><li>Jacques Villon (French, 1875-1963).</li><li>Etching on Arches laid paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 50.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This is the first example of Villon’s use of dividing the surface of the plate with pyramidal shapes, a key component of the Cubist style.

The Small Mechanical Workshop | Le Petit Atelier de Mécanique

Conrad Felixmüller

The Old Collier [Der alte Kohlenarbeiter], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=conrad+felixmuller&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Conrad Felixmüller</a>, 1921.<ul><li>Conrad Felixmüller (German, 1897-1977).</li><li>Drypoint on Wove Paper.</li><li>Hand signed.</li><li>Part of an edition 100.</li><li>Printed by Walter Kunzel, Dresden.</li><li>Published by Klinkhardt &amp; Biermann Verlag, Leipzig.</li><li>Published as a contribution to the Jahrbuch der Jungen Kunst, Vol II in 1921.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

The Old Collier | Der Alte Kohlenarbeiter

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

Los Proverbios: Four Additional Plates (Delteil 220-223; Harris 266-269)

Sam Francis

Untitled (SFE-081), by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=sam+francis&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sam Francis</a>, 1992.<ul><li>Sam Francis (American, 1923-1994).</li><li>Aquatint in colors on Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 76.</li><li>Printed by 2RC Edizioni d'Arte, Rome.</li><li>Published by Vigna Antoniniana Stamperia d'Arte, Rome.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Untitled (SFE-081)

Joan Miró

Composition VII, from: Gaudí, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=joan+miro&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Miró</a>, 1979.<ul><li>Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983).</li><li>Etching with aquatint on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 50.</li><li>Printed by Joan Barbarà, Barcelona.</li><li>Published by Maeght, Barcelona.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> After Miró had established his printing studio in his Son Boter studio in 1975, he was able to start his major project: a print series dedicated to the great Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, a figure he greatly admired. Miró met Gaudi during his adolescence while he was attending drawing classes at the Cercle de Sant Lluc. Miró greatly admired this Catalan Modernist architect, considering Gaudí’s work among his sources of inspiration. Miró decided to prepare this series carefully in advance before proceeding. In order to "be in shape", as he described it, he produced together with the engraver Joan Barbarà a variety of works such as Enrajolats, La commedia dell’arte, Rupestres, Personatges i estels and La gran rodona. The Gaudí series comprises 21 prints in which Miró used all conceivable resources, ranging from traditional techniques to the most innovative methods, such as etching, sugar-lift aquatint, carborundum, embossing, and collage. Miró worked from a series of preliminary sketches and originals made with pencil, pastel, ink, gouache, and collage. The original designs for the Gaudí series were finished before Barbarà began his collaboration with Miró. All the matrices that were used for this series were copper plates, some plated with nickel. The creative process for this series took place at the Son Boter studio beginning in 1976; it was then printed in Barcelona in 1979, in an edition of 50. The result of this process is a gallery of images in which the sobriety of the black hues contrasts with the palette of blues, reds, yellows, and greens. All of these colors often configure a sort of multi-shaped, uneven grid whose changing geometry suggests the kaleidoscopic, irregular mosaic work used by Gaudí to envelop his architectural elements.

Composition VII, from: Gaudí, 1979 

Ba1347 Peintre et modèle au fauteuil, 1963, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Pablo+Picasso&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pablo Picasso</a>.<ul><li>Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973).</li><li>Linocut rincé printed in cream with China Ink on Arches paper.</li><li>Baer's first state (of two).</li><li>One of approximately five impressions (there were also five impressions printed in brown and black).</li><li>Printed by Arnéra, 1963.</li><li>Signed, dedicated and dated 'pour Norman Granz/ son ami Picasso/le. 18.5.69' upper right, in felt-tip pen.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Ba1347 Peintre et modèle au fauteuil, 1963

Two Women by the Window (Deux Femmes Près de la Fenêtre), by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Pablo+Picasso&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pablo Picasso</a>, 1959.<ul><li>Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973).</li><li>Linocut in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand-signed.</li><li>Printed by Hidalgo Arnéra, Vallauris in 1959.</li><li>Published by Galerie L. Leiris, Paris in 1960.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original linocut in colours is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Picasso" at the lower right margin. It is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 50, at the lower left margin. There were approximately 20 artist’s proofs aside from the standard edition. The paper bears the Arches watermark in the upper margin. The title of this work is as recorded in the catalogue raisonné by Georges Bloch; it is also known as Le matin - Deux femmes au réveil [The Morning - Two Women Awakening].

Two Women by the Window | Deux Femmes Près de la Fenêtre

Le Bouquet Rose by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>, 1980.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph on Arches paper.</li><li>Signed and numbered in pencil.</li><li>Edition 34/50.</li><li>Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> This still life employs several of Chagall's recurring motifs, such as a bird (in this case a rooster), a bouquet of flowers, and a crescent moon hanging above a distant and hazy village. His sketch-like technique translates well to the medium, giving this limited edition work the visual quality of an original sketch. The print is signed and numbered in pencil by the artist.

Le Bouquet Rose

Peter Halley

Rebus I, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=peter+halley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Halley</a>, 2026.<ul><li>Peter Halley (American, born 1953).</li><li>Acrylic and fluorescent acrylic, on LITO Hi-Rnd© technology print on aluminum.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 20.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered via adhered backplate.</li></ul> Sotheby’s LIMITED and LITO present original works by contemporary artists brought to life through the LITO Hi-Rnd© process, with texture, relief and color. The two new artworks, Rebus I and Rebus IV, by American artist Peter Halley, feature the artist's signature Roll-A-Tex textured surface digitally rendered and "cloned" twelve times. Inspired by Halley’s ‘Cell Grid’ paintings, a series which began in 2014. Each edition offers the tactility of Halley’s iconic textured paintings combined with intense and vibrating colors, creating a new hybrid art form that is both serial and unique. A central figure in the American Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley is known for the use of geometric abstraction and grid-like compositions in his paintings. Over the past five decades, Halley’s lexicon has included three elements which explore the digital era and industrialization: ‘prisons’, ‘cells’ and ‘conduits.’ The texture of Rebus I, and Rebus IV is informed by Halley’s use of Roll-A-Tex in his paintings (a low-budget paint additive seen in popcorn ceilings). Halley challenged LITO Editions to "clone" this material, repeating the twelve individual cells on metal frames, which were then bolted together into a tightly packed contra- punctual grid, an effect heightened by the arrangement of each cell at a different level of relief. The series has been conceived through digital processes – to create the texture, relief and structure of the work – and then hand-painted at the LITO Tech Lab – a large space in Austria spanning a laboratory, studio and workshop. Shop Sotheby's <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fine-art/editions/LIMITED" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LIMITED</a>, exclusive editions created in collaboration with leading contemporary artists only available at Sotheby's. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/introducing-the-sothebys-limited-patron-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elevate your experience – join our Sotheby's LIMITED Patron Program</a>

Rebus I

Rebus IV, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=peter+halley&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Peter Halley</a>, 2026.<ul><li>Peter Halley (American, born 1953).</li><li>Acrylic and fluorescent acrylic, on LITO Hi-Rnd© technology print on aluminum.</li><li>Part of a limited edition of 20.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered via adhered backplate.</li></ul> Sotheby’s LIMITED and LITO present original works by contemporary artists brought to life through the LITO Hi-Rnd© process, with texture, relief and color. The two new artworks, Rebus I and Rebus IV, by American artist Peter Halley, feature the artist's signature Roll-A-Tex textured surface digitally rendered and "cloned" twelve times. Inspired by Halley’s ‘Cell Grid’ paintings, a series which began in 2014. Each edition offers the tactility of Halley’s iconic textured paintings combined with intense and vibrating colors, creating a new hybrid art form that is both serial and unique. A central figure in the American Neo-Conceptualist movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley is known for the use of geometric abstraction and grid-like compositions in his paintings. Over the past five decades, Halley’s lexicon has included three elements which explore the digital era and industrialization: ‘prisons’, ‘cells’ and ‘conduits.’ The texture of Rebus I, and Rebus IV is informed by Halley’s use of Roll-A-Tex in his paintings (a low-budget paint additive seen in popcorn ceilings). Halley challenged LITO Editions to "clone" this material, repeating the twelve individual cells on metal frames, which were then bolted together into a tightly packed contra- punctual grid, an effect heightened by the arrangement of each cell at a different level of relief. The series has been conceived through digital processes – to create the texture, relief and structure of the work – and then hand-painted at the LITO Tech Lab – a large space in Austria spanning a laboratory, studio and workshop. Shop Sotheby's <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fine-art/editions/LIMITED" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LIMITED</a>, exclusive editions created in collaboration with leading contemporary artists only available at Sotheby's. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/introducing-the-sothebys-limited-patron-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elevate your experience – join our Sotheby's LIMITED Patron Program</a>

Rebus IV

Joe Goode

Water by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joe+Goode&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Goode</a>, 1990.<ul><li>Joe Goode (American, 1937-2025).</li><li>Artist’s book of 12 etchings on Japanese paper.</li><li>Signed and numbered by the artist on title page.</li><li>Edition #6/38.</li></ul>

Water

Jacques Callot

Les Petites Misères de la Guerre (Lieure 1333-1338)

Le Siège de la Citadelle de Saint Martin, dans l'Ile de Ré (Lieure 654, cf. 656-659)

Lobster by <a href="Jeff Koons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeff Koons</a>, 2025.<ul><li>Jeff Koons (American, born 1955).</li><li>Hand-signed by the artist on Certificate of Authenticity.</li><li>Part of an edition of 99, plus 5 APs.</li><li>Launched November 5th, 2025.</li><li>Expected to ship in 4-6 weeks from purchase.</li></ul> Comprising of 18 detachable parts, including 13 hidden compartments within its claws, tail, and underside. Lobster was developed over nearly eight years in close collaboration between Bernardaud and Jeff Koons

Lobster

Now the King loved Science and Geometry... from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights [Contes des Mille et une Nuits], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Marc+Chagall&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Marc Chagall</a>,&nbsp;1948.<ul><li>Marc Chagall (Russian-French, 1887-1985).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin. It is also numbered in pencil from the edition of 90 and inscribed “pl. 10” at the lower left margin The work is the 10th plate (of 12) from the album Four Tales from the Arabian Nights. This work was printed in 1948 in a limited edition of 90 signed and numbered impressions by Albert Carman, New York. It was published by Pantheon, New York. There is a thirteenth composition which was only included in ten of the portfolios. Each composition illustrates a piece of text from one of four tales from the Arabian nights. This composition relates to the story of “The Tale of the Ebony Horse”. The text from which the image was created is – “Now the King loved science and geometry and one festival day as he sat on his kingly throne there came to him three wise men…”

Now the King loved Science and Geometry…, from Four Tales from the Arabian Nights

Divers artistes

Les Portraits des hommes illustres françois qui sont peints dans la galerie du Palais Cardinal de Richelieu (18 gravures)

Damien Hirst 

The Beautiful Paintings | #632 Beautiful, Still, Quite Serene, Soul Quarrelling Tourbillon, by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Damien+Hirst&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Damien Hirst</a>, 2023.<ul><li>Damien Hirst (English, born 1965).</li><li>Giclée print on poly-cotton artist canvas mounted on birch plywood stretcher.</li><li>Hand-signed in paint pen on the front.</li><li>Unique, AI-generated.</li></ul>

The Beautiful Paintings | #632 Beautiful, Still, Quite Serene, Soul Quarrelling Tourbillon Painting

Los Proverbios (Delteil 202-219; Harris 248-265)

Woman's Head Crowned with Flowers, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Pablo+Picasso&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pablo Picasso</a>, 1954.<ul><li>Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973).</li><li>A.R. white earthenware clay ceramic pitcher.</li><li>Numbered on bottom.</li><li>Edition 25/100.</li><li>Published by Madoura, Vallauris.</li></ul> Pablo Picasso, considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, was a master of many art mediums. He collaborated with Madoura to produce editions of his painted ceramic works beginning in the 1940s.

Woman's Head Crowned with Flowers

Oscar Murillo

Mango by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Oscar+Murillo&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Oscar Murillo</a>, 2026.<ul><li>Oscar Murillo (Colombian, born 1986).</li><li>LITO Hi-Rnd© print on alu dibond.</li><li>Limited Edition of 25.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered by the artist via adhered backplate.</li><li>This work is sold with dark brown aluminum frame.</li></ul>&nbsp;Sotheby’s and LITO present original works by contemporary artists brought to life through the LITO Hi-Rnd© process, with texture, relief, and color. This release marks Oscar Murillo’s first-ever limited edition print, based on his celebrated “Word Paintings” series, Drawings off the Wall (2010–2014). Combining gestural abstraction with fragments of language, the works draw on personal memory and everyday cultural references to explore how ordinary words can carry layered social and cultural meaning. In celebration of the South London Gallery's 135th anniversary, all artist proceeds are being donated to the SLG.&nbsp; Shop Sotheby's <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/fine-art/editions/LIMITED" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LIMITED</a>, exclusive editions created in collaboration with leading contemporary artists only available at Sotheby's. <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/introducing-the-sothebys-limited-patron-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Elevate your experience – join our Sotheby's LIMITED Patron Program</a>

Mango

Douglas Gordon

Portrait of a Self-Portrait of a Self, as Marilyna by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Douglas+Gordon&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Douglas Gordon</a>, 2023.<ul><li>Douglas Gordon (Scottish, born 1966).</li><li>Burned print on paper, Dibond mirror.</li><li>Dibond backplate, aluminium frame with plexiglass.</li><li>Signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 35.</li></ul>

Portrait of a Self-Portrait of a Self, as Marilyna

Roberto Matta

La Dulce Aqua Vita, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Roberto+Matta&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roberto Matta</a>, 2002.<ul><li>Roberto Matta (Chilean, 1911-2002).</li><li>Carborundum Etching with hand coloring on heavy hand-made paper.</li><li>Signed and numbered in marker.</li><li>Part of an edition of 103/125.</li><li>Published by Nordstamp.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> Roberto Matta's colorful, Surrealist rendering is filled with spiritual and imaginative elements that emphasize the dreamlike quality of the work.

La Dulce Aqua Vita

Georges Braque 

Nude Study (Nude) | Etude de nu (Nu), by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Georges+Braque&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Georges Braque</a>, 1907-08, published 1953.<ul><li>Georges Braque(French, 1882-1963).</li><li>Etching on Auvernge Laid paper.</li><li>Hand-signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This original etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist "G Braque" at the lower right margin. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 25, at the lower left margin. The work was printed by Visat, Paris and published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris in 1953. Braque etched the plate in 1907-08 making only a few trial proofs. The edition of 25 was published in 1953 along with an edition of 30 on Rives wove paper. One of the early trial proofs from 1907-08 is held in the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris and bears a handwritten inscription from Braque to the institution. This is the first print created by Georges Braque. The plate was etched by the artist between 1907-08 and it is contemporary with a drawing with a similar composition which was held in the Collection of Douglas Cooper.

Nude Study (Nude) | Etude de nu (Nu)

Henry Moore

Two Fat Lambs (Cramer 395), by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Henry+Moore&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henry Moore</a>, 1974.<ul><li>Henry Moore (English, 1898-1986).</li><li>Lithograph on Laid paper.</li><li>Signed and numbered in pencil.</li><li>Part of an edition of 30, X.</li><li>Published by Curwen Prints Ltd, London.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul> Henry Moore's sweet rendering of two lambs is a lovely example of the artist's extensive skill as a draughtsman. Watching the sheep in the fields from his studio window in Hertfordshire, the artist would sketch the sheep and lambs as they grazed.

Two Fat Lambs

François-Nicolas Martinet

Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle (16 Gravures)

The Return Journey III, from: Series for King Ubu, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joan+Mir%C3%B3&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Miró</a>, 1966.<ul><li>Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983).</li><li>Le Voyage de Retour III, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi.</li><li>Lithograph in colors on Arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This lithograph in colors is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right corner. It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left corner. There were also 25 hors commerce [out of trade] impressions. The work was part of a portfolio entitled "Roi Ubu" [King Ubu] realised by the artist in 1966. It was printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris and published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris. The paper bears the Arches watermark along the lower margin. Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896. It is a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd and Surrealism. It is the first of three stylized burlesques in which Jarry satirizes power, greed, and their evil practices—in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success. It was followed by Ubu Cocu [Ubu Cuckolded] and Ubu Enchaîné [Ubu Enchained], neither of which was performed during Jarry's 34-year life. Père Ubu first appeared in 1888 in a collaboration between Alfred Jarry and a fellow student at the Rennes Lycée, but his first public appearance came in 1893 when Jarry published some of prose works in an avant-garde review, the Minutes de Sable Mémorial. His triumph, however, was on the stage when the director of the Theâtre de l'Oeuvre, Lugne-Poe staged a production of Ubu Roi. The audience received the play with screams, whistles, fist-shaking, the critics took up the cudgels and the play became infamous and its author an avant-garde hero. Joan Miró used Ubu Roi as a subject of his most famous series, made of 50 1940 lithographs known as "the Barcelona Series." These pictures could be Ubu Roi but they also satirize General Franco and his generals after he had won the Spanish Civil War. He revisited this subject many times in his oeuvre.

The Return Journey III, from: Series for King Ubu

Bougrelas and his Mother III, from Series for King Ubu [Bougrelas et sa Mère III, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi], by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Joan+Mir%C3%B3&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Miró</a>, 1966.<ul><li>Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983).</li><li>Lithograph in colors on arches Wove paper.</li><li>Hand signed and numbered.</li><li>Part of an edition of 75.</li><li>Printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris.</li><li>Published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> The work was part of a portfolio entitled Roi Ubu [King Ubu] realised by the artist in 1966. Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896. It is a precursor of the Theatre of the Absurd and Surrealism.It is the first of three stylized burlesques in which Jarry satirizes power, greed, and their evil practices—in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success. It was followed by Ubu Cocu [Ubu Cuckolded] and Ubu Enchaîné [Ubu Enchained], neither of which was performed during Jarry's 34-year life. Père Ubu first appeared in 1888 in a collaboration between Alfred Jarry and a fellow student at the Rennes Lycée, but his first public appearance came in 1893 when Jarry published some of prose works in an avant-garde review, the Minutes de Sable Mémorial. His triumph, however, was on the stage when the director of the Theâtre de l'Oeuvre, Lugne-Poe staged a production of Ubu Roi. The audience received the play with screams, whistles, fist-shaking, the critics took up the cudgels and the play became infamous and its author an avant-garde hero. Joan Miró used Ubu Roi as a subject of his most famous series, made of 50 1940 lithographs known as "the Barcelona Series". These pictures could be Ubu Roi but they also satirize General Franco and his generals after he had won the Spanish Civil War. He revisited this subject many times in his oeuvre.

Bougrelas and his Mother III, from: Series for King Ubu | Bougrelas et sa Mère III, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi

William Tillyer

Living in Arcadia II, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William+Tillyer&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Tillyer</a>, 1991.<ul><li>William Tillyer (British, born 1938).</li><li>Print on handmade paper.</li><li>Signed, dated, numbered recto in pencil along the lower margin.</li><li>Part of an edition of 47, 9 AP.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Living in Arcadia II

Red Poppies by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Donald+Sultan&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Donald Sultan</a>, 1989.<ul><li>Donald Sultan (American, born 1951).</li><li>Screenprint.</li><li>Signed and numbered in pencil.</li><li>Edition 8/125.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul>

Red Poppies

Howard Hodgkin

Artist and Model by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Howard+Hodgkin&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Howard Hodgkin</a>, 1980.<ul><li>Howard Hodgkin (British, 1932-2017).</li><li>Soft-ground etching in sepia with hand-coloring in watercolor and gouache.</li><li>Signed numbered and dated.</li><li>Edition 53/100.</li><li>This work is presented framed.</li></ul>

Artist and Model

Red Grooms

Saskia Down the Metro, by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Red+Grooms&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Red Grooms</a>, 1983.<ul><li>Red Grooms (American, born 1937).</li><li>From the portfolio New York, New York.</li><li>Screenprint in colors with collage and hand coloring on B.F.K. Rives paper.</li><li>Signed and numbered in pencil.</li><li>Edition XVI/XXXV.</li><li>Published by The New York Graphic Society.</li><li>Printed by Studio Heinrici, New York.</li><li>This work is presented unframed.</li></ul> This print by Red Grooms is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, and James Rosenquist. The portfolio consists of two lithographs, five screenprints, and one mixed media print all on various wove papers, each signed and editioned in pencil along lower edge. This is from the edition of XVI/XXXV.

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