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Picasso, Freud, Henri de Toulouse Lautrec and many more  frontline artists feature at Christie’s sale of prints and multiples in London on March 18. The auction will feature a carefully curated selection of work by some of the most celebrated masters of printmaking.  There are 155 lots in total.  Christie’s say the auction offers new and existing collectors an exciting opportunity to acquire prints by acclaimed artists.  Here are some works from the sale.

Pablo Picasso – Buste de Femme au Chapeau 1962 (£200,00-300,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE £314,500

Lucian Freud – Eli 2002 (£80,000-120,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE £104,500

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec – Partie de Compagne (£40,000-60,000) © Christie’s Images Limited 2015  UPDATE: THIS MADE £43,750

James Abbot McNeill Whistler – Wapping – The Pool (38,000-12,000). © Christie’s Images Limited 2015 UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

The Irish have descended on Cheltenham in droves this week but for exciting racing imagery there is no need to look further than Morgan O’Driscoll’s online art auction which runs to March 23.  The auction offers a great racing image by Peter Curling, the Tipperary based artist whose images of horses and horse racing are very widely appreciated. On offer is a limited edition lithograph, signed and numbered 317/500 of Aldaniti at the 1981 Grand National.  The work shows Aldaniti tearing through a fence and it is signed by Peter Curling (Artist), Bob Campion (Jockey), John Gilford (Trainor), Nick Embiricos (Owner) and is estimated at 200-400.  Aldaniti went on the win the Grand National all of 34 years ago.  There are 342 lots on the catalogue. Here is a small selection.

Peter Curling (b.1955)
Aldaniti, Grand National, Aintree 1981
limited edition lithograph signed & numbered 317/500
signed by Peter Curling (Artist), Bob Campion (Jockey), John Gilford (Trainor), Nick Embiricos (Owner) (200-400). UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 160

James Humbert Craig RHA RUA (1878-1944)
Coastal Landscape (2,000-3,000).  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

Anthony Robert Klitz (1917-2000) British
St. Patrick’s Bridge, Cork (1,000-1,500).   UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 1,800

Kenneth Webb RWA FRSA RUA (b.1927)
Connemara Landscape (2,500-3,500)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 3,400

Mark Rothko’s N0. 36 (Black Stripe) will lead Christie’s Post War and Contemporary Art evening sale in New York on May 13.  The 1958 work is from the collection of the Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden – one of Europe’s most important and prestigious private museums for Modernism and Contemporary art. With a signature concordance of three shimmering rectangles of directly contrasting color asserting themselves against a luminescent red ground, No. 36 (Black Stripe) is a classic example of Rothko’s mature style of painting.

It was painted when he was engaged with the series of murals for the Four Seasons Restaurant in the Seagram building in Manhattan (now known as The Rothko Room at Tate Modern in London).  No. 36 (Black Stripe) exemplifies this extraordinary moment in the artist’s life and career. Acquired by Frieder Burda over thirty years ago it has never appeared at auction, but featured prominently in every major museum exhibitions devoted to the artist.  These includes exhibitions at the Tate Gallery in London, the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, The National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sidney and the seminal retrospective at the Fondation Beyeler, in 2001. It is stimated $30-50 million.

Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, 1999  UPDATE: IT MADE £425,000

A provocative work by Italian artist Maurizio Catalan listing every time the England team has lost comes up as part of Sotheby’s Bear Witness sale in London on March 10. The artist said it talks about pride, missed opportunities and death. Etched into black granite, like an epitaph on a memorial, is every occasion the England football team has lost a game.  Stretching from Scotland’s 2-1 defeat of England in Glasgow in 1874 to Romania’s 2-1 victory at the 1998 World Cup, this monumental work of art charts the many ignominious moments the national team has suffered over the years. Cattelan’s other well-known works include La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour) which depicts Pope John Paul II being struck down by a meteorite.

The football monument was first exhibited in London in 1999 and its sale at Sotheby’s follows England’s worst ever performance at a football World Cup in 2014 (including losses to Italy and Uruguay). It is estimated at £400,000-600,000.

Lot 31: Jack Butler Yeats RHA, 1871-1957 THE BANG THE DOOR BOYS (1944). )60,000-80,000).

In Dublin de Veres has opened a new auction room and gallery space at 35 Kildare St. This intimate and contemporary environment will show selected artworks and 20th century design furniture.

Their upcoming Irish art auction on March 24 will showcase this new space.  It includes 92 lots of Irish art in a carefully selected sale with works by artists including Walter Osborne, Jack Yeats, William Conor, Colin Middleton and Roderic O’Conor.  The catalogue for this sale is now available at de Veres.