the editor’s twelve.
The Editor’s choice of eye-catching prints that have been added this week. Not the most expensive. The most interesting.
Two sections: artists arriving, and artists already arrived.
Prints by tomorrow’s greats
Artists whose prices are still a conversation, not a barrier. The names collectors will be citing in ten years — available now, before the market decides for you.
Two Sequences, Two Versions (2010)
James Siena
Flying Horse Editions
A hypnotic exercise in algorithmic thinking made by hand, Siena’s intricate ruled patterns pulse with the tension between rigid system and organic imperfection.
The Boathouse (2016)
Blaise Drummond
Michael Woolworth
Rendered with a quiet, almost melancholic restraint, this atmospheric lithograph turns an ordinary riverside structure into a meditation on stillness and the passage of time.
Untitled (2026)
Pauline D’Andigné
GATE44
Freshly minted and brimming with formal confidence, this new work announces an artist whose vocabulary – spare, charged, distinctly her own – is already fully formed.
You got to burn to shine (2026)
John Giorno
JRP|Editions
Equal parts incantation and provocation, this text-based work channels Giorno’s Beat-inflected poetry into a visual object that demands to be read aloud.
Imagine Happiness 19 (2025)
Sam Messer
Jungle Press Editions
From his ongoing series, Messer’s gestural, emotionally raw mark-making turns the pursuit of joy into something almost painfully human.
Couple II (1992)
John Millei
Cirrus Gallery + Cirrus Editions
With its charged negative space and figures hovering between tenderness and unease, this print asks everything a great figurative work should ask – and answers nothing.
Prints by artists who got there first
Works by the names that made printmaking matter – available through specialist galleries.
Le Bain (1905)
Pablo Picasso
John Szoke Gallery
A rare window into the Blue Period’s twilight, this intimate etching captures Picasso’s early poetic melancholy before Cubism changed everything.
Folsom Street Variations II (Grey) (1986)
Richard Diebenkorn
Christopher-Clark Fine Art
Diebenkorn’s masterly command of abstracted light and urban geometry distills the California coast into a shimmering, silvery field of pure feeling.
Left Behind 2 Again (2014)
Mickalene Thomas
Tandem Press
A dazzling collision of rhinestone glamour, art-historical reference, and Black womanhood, Thomas reasserts whose beauty has always been worth celebrating.
Cone (1995)
Wayne Thiebaud
Michael Lisi/Contemporary Art
A single scoop rendered with such tender, almost reverential precision that Thiebaud makes the ice cream cone feel like a monument to American ordinariness.
Ohne Titel (Mythen des Alltags) (1989)
A.R. Penck
Galerie Raphael
Penck’s raw, stick-figure-like iconography carries the weight of Cold War Germany – primal, urgent, and bristling with the mythology of everyday survival.
The Open Window (1971)
Marc Chagall
Gilden’s Art Gallery
Saturated with the dreamlike colour and floating lovers that defined his entire vision, this late lithograph is Chagall at his most lyrically, unashamedly himself.
