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Multifaceted creative Trevor Andrew, best known for his alias “Guccighost,” is set to launch a limited run of prints to celebrate Halloween. The highlighted artwork takes inspiration from the notorious horror punk band, Misfits, and was originally a hand-screened print done by the artist back in 2014. Each print is sized at 20 x 16 inches wide and will never be reproduced again.

Check out the artwork below and expect an official launch this Friday, October 18 on TroubleAndrew.com.

Christie’s will soon launch its postwar and contemporary art evening sale in New York this November. Leading the lots is a little-known painting by the famed British artist, David Hockney. Titled ‘Sur la Terrasse,’ the piece portrays Hockney’s longtime lover Peter Schlesinger. The life-sized piece was made in 1971 by the artist and features Schlesinger standing outside of a hotel balcony during the pair’s trip to Marrakech, Morocco. The work is estimated to sell for between $25 million USD and $45 million USD.

“This work marks a momentous turning point in the artist’s personal and professional lives,” said Ana Maria Celis, Christie’s head of the postwar and contemporary art evening sale, in a statement. “We are very pleased to be bringing Sur la Terrasse to market and into the public eye after residing within a private collection for nearly 40 years, where it went unseen by the public for almost as long.”

Christie’s postwar and contemporary art sale will run through November 25-26 in New York City. Visit Christie’s website to check out the lots.

A large-scale painting by acclaimed Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara hammered down a most impressive sale price of $25 million USD at Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in Hong Kong this past weekend. The sale marks the most expensive piece ever sold by the artist at auction.

The muted-toned work titled ‘Knife Behind Back’ (2000) measures roughly seven by seven feet wide and portrays Nara’s signature, angry-eyed female subject clad in a red collard dress. It’s considered to be one of the artist’s largest works ever created in his extensive oeuvre with Nara having created the piece when he returned to Japan after spending twelve years in Germany.

Nara’s previous auction record was set at Christie’s Hong Kong back in May this year. The artist’s ‘Sleepless Night (Cat)’ (1999) snapped up $4.45 million USD — nearly one-fifth of the total amount of his latest sale.