Diebenkorn, Freud, Munch & Warhol prints highlight Bonhams October auction
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Diebenkorn, Freud, Munch & Warhol prints highlight Bonhams October auction
Richard Diebenkorn, Blue Loop, 1980. From Eight Color Etchings. Printed at Crown Point Press, San Francisco. Printed by Lilah Toland, Nancy Anello. Spitbite aquatint, softground. ©The Richard Diebenkorn Foundation.



SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Soon coming to the auction block at Bonhams will be a complete portfolio of Andy Warhol's "Flowers," 1970, comprising 10 signed screenprints in colors on wove paper (est. $300,000-500,000). They will appear in Bonhams’ fall auction of Prints and Multiples, October 21 in San Francisco, and simulcast in Los Angeles.

A Lucian Freud etching of "Woman with an Arm Tattoo," 1996 (est. $50,000-70,000) will also stand out in the sale. The piece depicts a woman with her head resting in one of her hands, with a tattoo visible on her opposite arm. Lucian Freud paid great attention to his subjects’ skin in his works and this piece demonstrates that fact.

Also on highlight will be an Edvard Munch drypoint and aquatint in dark brown ink of "Consolation," 1894 (est. $50,000-60,000). Bonhams’ Director of Prints & Photographs, Judith Eurich, discusses this excellent print and its provenance in a video at www.bonhams.com/video/17617/.

The auction will go on to feature various works by Richard Diebenkorn. There will be two spitbite aquatint works from "Eight Color Etchings," 1980: "Large Light Blue" (est. $40,000-60,000) and "Blue Loop" (est. $20,000-30,000).

Another Diebenkorn work will be offered among seven signed and numbered prints of various media by Niki de Saint Phalle, Sam Francis, David Hockney, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jean Tinguely, and Andy Warhol. The prints comprise the portfolio "Eight by Eight to Celebrate the Temporary Contemporary," 1984, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, copy 171/250 (est. $20,000-30,000).

Various works will also be on offer by Pablo Picasso, such as a colored lithograph "Figure au Corsage Rayé," 1949 (est. $50,000-70,000); a linocut in brown, black and grey "La Dame à la Collerette (Portrait de Jacqueline à la Fraise)," 1963 (est. $35,000-45,000); and an etching "Jeune Homme présentant un Miroir, à une femme" from 347 Series, 1968 (est. $12,000-18,000).

Additional contemporary examples on offer will include a Richard Estes colored screenprint of "Holland Hotel," 1980 (est. $18,000-25,000); a Joan Miro colored aquatint of "Pitre Rose," 1974 (est. $20,000-30,000); and a Henri Matisse aquatint of "Nadia au visage penché," 1948 (est. $15,000-20,000).

Rounding out the sale will be a Louise Nevelson complete set of six lead-intaglio collages entitled the "Lead Intaglio series," 1970-1973. It includes "The Great Wall," 1970; "The Night Sound," 1971; "Sky Garden," 1971; "Night Tree," 1972; "Tropical Leaves," 1972; "Sky Shadow," 1973 (est. $10,000-15,000).










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