The latest auction from Christie’s “Prints and Multiples” department will see works by some of Modern and Contemporary art’s biggest names, including Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol, in a sale that will take place on September 21.The auction, which also features works by Freud, Haring, Chagall, Matisse, Miro, Beuys, Braque, Giacometti, and David Hockney, will comprise around 200 lots from all of the 20th century’s biggest art movements, ranging from Pop art to Surrealism. It will offer works with estimates from $2,700 to $200,000, allowing collectors to also own more affordable works by major artists.The “Prints and Multiples” sale will be led by one American icon, Andy Warhol, with a work featuring another, Buzz Aldrin, standing on the moon. In the screenprint “Moonwalk,” 1987, undertaken by the artist in the year of his death, Warhol presents the images in fluorescent colors — one pink and one yellow — creating a work that sees the legendary Pop artist clearly being inspired by MTV’s use of the same iconography. The screenprint pair comes with an estimate of $200,000-270,000. Other works by Warhol include three of his “Mao” prints, as well as images of Mick Jagger, Wayne Gretzky, and Jean Cocteau.Further highlights of the sale include pieces by Warhol’s fellow Pop practitioner Roy Lichtenstein, who also creates a screenprint of an American icon in “I Love Liberty,” 1982 — his portrait of the Statue of Liberty, with an estimate of $27,000-40,000. David Hockney's etching, “A Panama Hat,” 1972, has an estimate of $8,000-10,500.The full artist lineup for the sale is as follows:Francis Bacon (4 lots)After Francis Bacon (3 lots)Banksy (1 lot)John Banting (1 lot)Max Beckmann (4 lots)Joseph Beuys (4 lots)Pierre Bonnard (1 lot)Georges Braque (2 lots)Marc Chagall (14 lots)Eduardo Chillida (1 lot)Marcel Duchamp (9 lots)Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray (2 lots)Alexandra Ekster (1 lot)MC Escher (1 lot)Lucian Freud (1 lot)Elisabeth Frink (1 lot)Alberto Giacometti (1 lot)Keith Haring (4 lots)Damien Hirst (5 lots)David Hockney (4 lots)Howard Hodgkin (1 lot)Jasper Johns (1 lot)William Kentridge (1 lot)Roy Lichtenstein (5 lots)Robert Longo (1 lot)Man Ray (2 lots)Henri Matisse (2 lots)After Henri Matisse (1 lot)Joan Miró (6 lots)Henry Moore (1 lot)Giorgio Morandi (2 lots)Christopher Nevinson (3 lots)Ben Nicholson (1 lot)Julian Opie (1 lot)Gerhard Richter (1 lot)Pablo Picasso (23 lots)After Pablo Picasso (2 lots)Michelangelo Pistoletto (1 lot)Cyril Power (1 lot)Walter Sickert (1 lot)Percy Smith (1 lot)Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (10 lots)Andy Warhol (24 lots)James Abbott McNeil Whistler (1 lot)Christopher Wool (1 lot)“Prints and Multiples” will take place on September 21 at Christie’s King Street, following previews from September 16-20.
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