Prints and Multiples, SOthebys, London:

1. Still a way to get among the best work for cheap (including a great tuymans hotel scene for 600 and a Yuskavage for the same)
2. Six Sean Scully Aquatints for 12, 500, i think aquatints work really well for him, because they encourage a depth and luminoisity in colour
3. The dozen or so murakimi's that go for under a grand, would better be handled by ebay, i think
4. Emin never really left her student phase, did she
5. Are photos proper here--photos are almost always multiple, and multpiple suggests a deliberate strategy of dissemantion
6. Paranoia man in cheap shit room by Cecily Brown, suggests that she might have a career in single panel gag strips
7. same warhols, a soup can, a mao, the lincoln center ticket, etc nothing really strong\
8. 2000 and 2002 Rileys, for 1000 or so, are the strongest and loveliest in her career, she keeps getting stronger--and the pinks, the teals, the salmons, all would be insipid, with out a balls out belief in patterning and abstraction
9. Asher John is making the cash
10. i wish hockney did more lithos
11. some of hodgkins indian views look like albers (his print work is under rated, its less gestural then his painting work, like he understands that it is impossible to make a spontenuas gesture in the heavily modulated mechinchal processes of litho or aqua tinting) hodgkin also might be one of the last english for the english painters possible
    
12. christo wrapped horse, is just funny
13. lots of random shit that was pulled out to pad an already medicore auction, work for a couple of hundred pounds bought in
    
14. also the usual late neo classical picassos, some medicore miro works, two roulat clowns, etc
    
15. there are a handful of lovely renoir prints that look like drawings
16. a dozen whistlers!