Sotheby’s New York auction of Important Prints & Multiples will take place on 26 & 27 April. The exhibition opens to the public 22 April featuring:

• Jasper Johns’s Flags I (ULAE 128), carrying an estimate of $1/1.5 million
• Andy Warhol’s complete set of Flowers (F. & S. 11.64-73). Estimated at $700/1,000,000, the group of ten screenprints in colors from 1970 are each signed on the verso and individually framed
• Henri Matisse’s Océanie, la mer – stretching over 5 by 12 feet – only the sixth to be available at auction, will be offered with a pre-sale estimate of $500/700,000
• Mary Cassatt, Baby Charles Looking Over His Mother’s Shoulder (No. 2) (estimate $250/350,000)
• Max Ernst’s Fiat modes pereat ars (Spies & Leppien 7) (estimate $80/120,000)
• Richard Diebenkorn’s Blue Surround (estimate $80/120,000)