Works by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns.
More than 300 lots by artists including Louise Bourgeois, Keith Haring, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol will come up at Christie’s two-day sale of Prints and Multiples in New York on October 23-24. This sale includes modern works by Marc Chagall, Edward Hopper, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. There is a complete set of Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup II screenprints, 1969 (sold individually). They are from the estate of Dr. Giuseppe Rossi, the chest and vascular surgeon credited with saving the artist’s life on June 3, 1968, after he was shot by radical feminist and playwright Valerie Solanas. The incident had a profound effect on Warhol and this group of screenprints was given to the doctor as a gesture of the artist’s immense gratitude.