LONDON.- Christie's announces its Prints and Multiples and Contemporary Edition: London online sales, scheduled to take place from 12-26 March and 17-31 March, respectively. An exhibition of the sales will be held at Christie's London until 31 March. With estimates ranging from £500 to £300,000, the sales offer collectors at every stage the opportunity to acquire important works.

The headline lot of the Spring season will be David Hockney's monumental Autour de la maison, été (2019, estimate: £200,000-300,000), measuring an astonishing 12 metres in length. Printed on a single sheet of paper, it is one of the largest works ever created by the artist, and his largest editioned print. It depicts Hockney's home in Normandy, France, with his garden in the height of summer, the vibrant greens of the grass, trees and hedgerows in contrast with the architecture of the medieval barns and contemporary elements such as a swing set, treehouse and parked vehicles.

Parallels can be drawn between the present work and the Bayeux Tapestry, which the artist notes later inspired him to create A Year in Normandie (2020–2021), a 295-foot (90-meter) iPad painting printed on paper composed of separate images arranged in a continuous frieze. Its presentation in London is particularly timely, coinciding with Hockney's current solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery and anticipating the forthcoming display of the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum.

James Baskerville, International Head of Contemporary Edition, Christie's: “With Autour de la maison, été, Hockney expands the possibilities of printmaking to an almost cinematic scale. Measuring an extraordinary twelve metres across and realised on a single sheet, the work invites the viewer to move through the artist's Normandy garden as though reading a continuous pictorial frieze. The composition echoes the storytelling of the Bayeux Tapestry, while anticipating the monumental vision of A Year in Normandie. It is a tour de force within Hockney's printed oeuvre and comes at a moment when the market for Hockney's prints continues to demonstrate exceptional strength, with collectors increasingly drawn to ambitious, large-scale works that exemplify the artist's innovative approach to the medium.”

Prints and Multiples – 12 to 26 March 2026

This season's Prints and Multiples sale – open for bidding online until 26 March – presents works by some of the most influential artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Among the main highlights of the sale is Pablo Picasso's Visage de Marie-Thérèse, 1928 (estimate: £20,000-30,000). In 1927, Picasso met Marie‑Thérèse Walter on a Paris boulevard, beginning one of the most significant artistic relationships of his career. She became his muse for the next decade, inspiring a celebrated body of work. This elegant lithograph is among the artist's earliest portraits of Marie-Thérèse, capturing the distinctive features that would come to define his depictions of her.

Joan Miró Gargantua (1977; estimate: £40,000-60,000) is a monumental print created in collaboration with printmaker Robert Dutrou using Henri Goetz's innovative carborundum technique. Inspired by François Rabelais's Renaissance tale of the giant Gargantua, the composition combines bold black forms with vivid reds, blues and yellows. Miró's dynamic arrangement of floating elements creates a powerful sense of movement and scale.

Created in 1995, Vertical Dogs by David Hockney (estimate: £20,000-30,000) is a lively etching and aquatint that depicts the artist's beloved dachshunds, Stanley and Boodgie. The work reflects the warmth and intimacy of the artist's domestic life in Los Angeles, capturing the playful character and distinctive personalities of his canine companions.

Bridget Riley's Silvered 2 (1981; estimate: £12,000-18,000) is a precisely structured composition of parallel bands, in which the artist explores the perceptual effects of line and colour. Moving beyond the stark black-and-white optical patterns of her early work, she introduces luminous colour relationships that seem to pulse and shift across the surface, demonstrating her mastery of optical abstraction.

The sale is also completed by important works from Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Roy Lichtenstein, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, and Paula Rego, among others.

Contemporary Edition: London – 17 to 31 March 2026

Contemporary Edition: London – open for online bidding from 17 to 31 March - highlights sought-after editions by internationally recognised artists alongside emerging talents, with works spanning the late 20th century to the present day.

In addition to the leading highlight – David Hockney's largest editioned print Autour de la maison, été (2019, estimate: £200,000-300,000), the other key highlight of the sale will be Banksy's Bunch of Flowers (2021; estimate: £100,000-150,000) a hand-finished screenprint from 2021. This work has not been publicly exhibited or offered for sale before. It was gifted directly from the artist to the present owner, accompanied by a personal note. The work closely relates to Banksy's iconic image Love is in the Air, which he revisited in 2019 with the Flower Thrower Triptych (Grey), an example of which is also included in the sale (2019; estimate: £100,000-150,000).

Further highlights include Banksy's Kate Moss (2005; estimate: £70,000-100,000), presented in the striking colourway inspired by Andy Warhol's Shot Sage Blue Marilyn. In this work, the artist superimposes the face of the contemporary supermodel onto Warhol's iconic image, creating a playful subversion of art history.

The auction features multiple works by Damien Hirst, encompassing his celebrated Spots, Butterflies, Kaleidoscopes, and Blossom Trees (estimates ranging from £1,500 to £70,000), as well as two monumental tapestries that translate his seminal spin painting designs into Jacquard form. His blossom series explores the fleeting beauty of nature, reflecting on themes of life and death, desire, and the way we interpret and transform the world around us, capturing the striking transience of a tree in full bloom against a clear sky.

Barbara Kruger's celebrated Untitled (We will no longer be seen and not heard) from 1985 (estimate: £30,000-50,000), draws attention to the power imbalances in society, and the importance of amplifying marginalised voices. The powerful images are created with her classic juxtaposition of text and image, and this set is offered in the artist-specified red frames.