Peter Halley

Rebus I, by Peter Halley, 2026.

• Peter Halley (American, born 1953).
• Acrylic and fluorescent acrylic, on LITO Hi-Rnd© technology print on aluminum.
• Part of a limited edition of 20.
• Hand signed and numbered via adhered backplate.

Sotheby’s and LITO present Exclusive Editions: 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.

Hand signed and numbered via adhered backplate.