NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s Prints and Multiples auction will take place on April 15-16 in New York and will present a wide selection of works spanning the 19th century to the present day.
The sale will offer works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Edward Hopper, as well as prints by David Hockney, Keith Haring, and Roy Lichtenstein. Notable lots from the sale include Andy Warhol’s Cowboys and Indians (estimate: $400,000-600,000) and Edward Hopper’s Night on the El Train (estimate: $150,000-250,000), which displays the artist’s recurring themes of urban isolation and the adaptation of cinematic framing of subjects.
Another highlight of the sale is an exceptional collection of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec prints from the Property of Heirs of Franz Koenigs. Over the course of his life, Franz Koenigs formed one of the greatest and most diverse art collections of the twentieth century, including an exceptional collection of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec prints. The collection includes La petite loge (estimate: $70,000-100,000), a more intimate reprise of the artist’s famous La grande loge. Like Le grande loge, La petite loge is executed in the spatter technique which allowed for only a small number of twelve impressions and two proofs to be pulled. Additionally, Christie’s will also offer an impression of La grande loge from the Koenigs collection in the 20th Century Evening Sale on 11 May in New York.
ADDITIONAL SALE HIGHLIGHTS
• EDWARD HOPPER (1882-1967), Night on the El Train, etching and drypoint, on wove paper, 1918 Image: 7⅜ x 7⅞ in. Sheet: 13 x 13½ in. Estimate: $150,000-250,000
• ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997), Moonscape from the 11 pop artists, volume i screenprint in colors, on blue rowlux, 1965. Sheet: 19 7/8 x 23 3/4 in. Estimate: $18,000-$25,000
• ROY LICHTENSTEIN (1923-1997), Reflections on Crash, from Reflections Series, lithograph, screenprint and relief print in colors with metallized PVC collage and embossing, on Somerset paper, 1990. Image: 52 7/8 x 69 in. Sheet: 59 1/8 x 75 in. Estimate: $100,000-150,000
PROPERTY OF HEIRS OF FRANZ KOENIGS
• HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901), La Passagère du 54, ou Promenade en Yacht, lithograph in colors, on wove paper, 1896. Image: 24 x 17⅝ in. Sheet: 24⅝ x 18¼ in. Estimate: $40,000-60,000
PROPERTY OF HEIRS OF FRANZ KOENIGS
• HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901), La petite loge, lithograph in colors, on Chinepaper, 1897. Sheet: 9⅝ x 12⅝ in. Estimate: $70,000-100,000
PROPERTY OF HEIRS OF FRANZ KOENIGS
• HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901), Irish and American bar, Rue Royale - The Chap Book, lithograph in colors, on wove paper, 1895. Image: 16¼ x 24⅜ in. Sheet: 17 x 24⅞ in. Estimate: $25,000-35,000
