Print Auction at Sotheby's Featuring Important Works from Private and Institutional Collections
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Pablo Picasso, Taureau et Picador, a rincée, impression with extensive hand, additions in ink. (est. $250/350,000), © Sotheby's Images.
Property from The Estate of Catherine Gamble Curran includes Edgar Degas’ beguiling full portrait Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Paintings Gallery (est. $400/500,000); two iconic images by Mary Cassatt, The Fitting (est. $125/150,000) and In the Omnibus (est. $60/80,000); and the haunting figure within Wasssily Kandinsky’s 1903 woodcut Dame mit Facher (est. $70/90,000).
Additional property from Private American Collections includes Pablo Picasso’s Taureau et Picador, a rincée, an impression with extensive hand additions in ink (est. $200/300,000, pictured on page 1); a beautiful large scale Jasper Johns monotype Primaries with Secondaries (Variant) (est. $500/600,000); the complete set of Andy Warhol’s iconic portfolio, Campbell’s Soup I (portfolio of 10 prints, est. $250/350,000, pictured at right); and Richard Diebenkorn’s beautiful 1982 aquatint High Green, Version I (est. $150/200,000).
Sotheby’s is also thrilled to present Edvard Munch’s Madonna, a rare example of the 1895 lithograph without the sperm border (est. $600/800,000, pictured at left). And finally, this spring an American Academic Institution will de-accession a fine group of woodcuts by Blanche Lazell, various images executed in the first half of the 20th Century and ranging in value from $18,000-40,000.