Spanning five centuries of printmaking, this season’s London auctions showcase works by Old Masters and contemporary icons across three exciting sales.

Open for bidding from 11–25 September, Prints and Multiples presents many of the greatest artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Highlights include Andy Warhol’s Pop Art riff on the art of the past, Details of Renaissance Paintings (Sandro Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482), and David Hockney’s nod to cubism Van Gogh Chair (Black). Modern masters Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró are particularly well represented, as well as Modern British artists Frank Auerbach, Paula Rego and Francis Bacon.

Running from 16–30 September, Contemporary Edition celebrates editions from the late 20th century to today, with works by Banksy, KAWS, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie and Bridget Riley. Highlights include rare colourways of Banksy’s Soup Can, Grayson Perry’s Map of Days, Harland Miller’s Armageddon (large) and acclaimed prints by Peter Doig, Gerhard Richter and Yayoi Kusama..

The London season culminates with the live auction of Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I on 16 October. Assembled over decades by Klaus Hegewisch, it is one of the most important private ensembles of art on paper. Spanning from around 1500 to the 1960s, it features outstanding prints by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, and many others, with Picasso as its central focus. The collection is remarkable not only for its depth, focus and quality, but for the personal taste that shaped it – a taste for the enchanting, disquieting or outright macabre..