NEW YORK, NY.- On Thursday, November 12, Swann Galleries will offer Contemporary Art, featuring works from prominent Abstract Expressionists and Pop Artists, among others.

The top lot of the sale is first-generation Abstract Expressionist Theodoros Stamos’s Feeding Station, oil on canvas, 1953 (estimate $50,000 to $80,000). Stamos was the youngest of “The Eighteen Irascibles,” a group of artists who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s policy toward American painting in the 1940s. Other “Irascible” compatriots featured in this sale include Jackson Pollock, whose 1944-45 Untitled, etching and drypoint ($30,000 to $50,000), comes from a surviving intaglio plate discovered after Pollock’s untimely death in 1956; a run of works by Robert Motherwell including Gesture III, color brushed aquatint and lift-ground aquatint printed in blue and black, 1976-77 ($10,000 to $15,000); and David Smith’s Don Quixote, lithograph with hand-coloring in watercolor, 1952 ($12,000 to $18,000).

Among the other works by prominent abstract artists are Cy Twombly’s Roman Notes III, offset color lithograph, 1970 ($35,000 to $50,000); and Sam Francis’s Untitled, color aquatint, 1985 ($8,000 to $12,000). A run of works by influential sculptor and printmaker Alexander Calder includes the color lithograph Galaxy Composition, circa 1970, and the auquatint La Récolte (Harvest), 1962 (each estimated at $3,000 to $5,000).

Other works in the sale come from artists essential to the Pop Art Movement, including Jasper Johns’s Cicada II, color screenprint, 1979-81 ($25,000 to $35,000) and Untitled (Savarin), color lithograph, 1977 ($20,000 to $30,000); Keith Haring’s 1988 color screenprints Growing 2 and Growing 3 (each estimated at $20,000 to $30,000); and a run of works by Roy Lichtenstein, including Cathedral #4, color lithograph, 1969 ($10,000 to $15,000). Candy-hued color screenprints draw the eye, including Andy Warhol’s Flowers, 1970 ($25,000 to $35,000); Alex Katz’s Yellow Tulips, 2014 ($20,000 to $30,000); and Tom Wesselmann’s Cynthia Nude, 1981 ($8,000 to $12,000). The sale also features Pop Art influencer Yves Klein’s minimalist set Monochrome und Feuer (Triptych), a complete set of 3 color plates in Klein’s signature International Klein Blue, pink and gold, 1961 ($20,000 to $30,000).

Photorealistic (and Hyperrealistic) works challenge the viewers perception, with works like Chuck Close’s Self Portrait Screenprint 2012, color screenprint, 2012 ($40,000 to $60,000); Gerhard Richter’s Seestück (Gegenlicht), offset color lithograph, 1991 ($6,000 to $9,000); and Vija Celmins’s Strata, a group of 5 (of 6) color lithographs, 1962 ($20,000 to $30,000). In contrast, the geometry of works like Sean Scully’s SS 2014, 2014, gray and black pastels and ballpoint pen and red ink, 2014 ($20,000 to $30,000); and works by Josef Albers such as Emeraude, color screenprint, 1965 ($4,000 to $6,000), plumbs new depths with exploration of shape and color.

Works of collage include Jean-Michel Basquiat’s (Anti) Product (Suicide), postcard, ink and color Xerox, 1980 ($10,000 to $15,000), from early in the artist’s career, when he sold collaged and annotated postcards in Lower Manhattan; Joseph Cornell’s Penny Arcade, collage and ink, circa 1962 ($20,000 to $30,000); and Richard Prince’s Minding the Moon, pencil with collage, 1974 ($10,000 to $15,000).

The auction will be held Tuesday November 12, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The auction preview will be open to the public, with an exhibition opening Saturday, November 7 from noon to 5 p.m.; Monday, November 9 through Wednesday November 11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, November 12 from 10 a.m. to noon.