NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's announced exceptional results for the New York Fall Prints and Multiples sales: Exceptional Impressions: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection and Prints and Multiples. In total, the two sales made $17,507,992, with Exceptional Impressions: The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection totaling $9,893,182, and Prints and Multiples totaling $7,614,810.

The Schwartz collection sale set 40 world auction records for prints by artists ranging from Albrecht Dürer to Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper and Blanche Lazzell. Leading the two sales was Christ crucified between the two Thieves: 'The Three Crosses' by Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn from Exceptional Impressions, which realized $1,381,000. Additional highlights from the sale include two works by Albrecht Dürer: Melencolia I, which made $882,000 and Saint Eustace, which made $453,600. Edward Hopper’s Night on the El Train made $378,000, a record for any print by the artist at auction.

The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection was one of the largest collections of graphic art in the United States. Assembled over many decades, the collection spanned the best of European Old Master prints, German Expressionism and American Modernism. Additional works from the collection will be available online 6 – 19 November in Graphic Century: Featuring Exceptional Impressions from The Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection.

The top lot of the October 25th Prints and Multiples sale was Buste de femme d'après Cranach le Jeune by Pablo Picasso which realized $882,000, a world auction record for the print. Other sale highlights include Double Mickey Mouse by Andy Warhol, which achieved $630,000 and David Hockney’s The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven) - 30 March 2011, which achieved $327,600.