Prints & Multiples: Specialist Picks

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With iconic works by Edvard Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Lichtenstein and Warhol, Sotheby’s upcoming Prints & Multiples sale offers exceptional examples from over a century of printmaking. In an exciting collaboration with the 2013 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund-winning label PUBLIC SCHOOL, the design duo curated their favourite works from the sale. Now, Molly Steiger, Sotheby’s Vice President, Senior Specialist Prints department, shares her most noteworthy selections.

Prints & Multiples
23–24 November | New York

Prints & Multiples: Specialist Picks

  • Marcel Duchamp, De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou RRose Sélavy (La Boîte en Valise), 1935-1941. Estimate: $70,000–90,000.
    This lot offers a mini-survey of the artist’s work, presented in an accessible manner that provides a sort of retrospective in collectible form.

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  • Pablo Picasso, Minotaure, Buveur et Femmes, 1933. Estimate: $12,000–18,000.
    This image presents Picasso’s iconic themes of bacchanalia – the minotaur, naked women and drinking are represented in the artist’s works of every medium.

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  • Claes Oldenburg, Tilting Neon Cocktail (Platzker 21), 1983. Estimate: $5,000–7,000.
    This multiple exemplifies Oldenburg’s use of utilitarian objects, stripped down to their basic shape and structure.

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  • Andy Warhol, Piglet (Feldman & Schellmann IV.134B), 1959. Estimate: $15,000–20,000.
    From the artist’s book Wild Raspberries, this is a beautifully colored and whimsical recipe; a precursor to Warhol’s use of everyday objects such as Brillo boxes and soup cans.

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