Guy Hepner Contemporary Art Gallery

Guy Hepner Contemporary Art Gallery Guy Hepner New York ESTABLISHED IN 2000, GUY HEPNER IS A FULL SERVICE GALLERY AND ART ADVISORY LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY.

Specialising in post war and contemporary art, with a concentration of expertise on American pop, post pop and graffiti art. With more than twenty years of market experience, Guy Hepner has a long term perspective when advising clients and can offer experienced advice when building a collection or making investments, with a specific focus on the prints and paintings of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Bas

quiat, Roy Lichtenstein and Keith Haring. Alongside this blue chip focus, Guy Hepner runs an extensive exhibition program for emerging and mid career artists from the primary gallery space in New York.

Roy Lichtenstein, Interiors (1990–97).Late in his career, Lichtenstein turned the Ben-Day dot on the domestic. The sourc...
08/10/2026

Roy Lichtenstein, Interiors (1990–97).

Late in his career, Lichtenstein turned the Ben-Day dot on the domestic. The source material wasn't comics — it was furniture ads pulled from phone books and newspaper inserts. Generic sofas. Nobody's living room in particular.

Then he hung his own paintings on the walls. And Monet's. And Matisse's. A picture of a room in which the picture is the point.

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08/06/2026

Happy Birthday, Andy. 🎨 Born August 6, 1928 — and somehow still defining the culture nearly a century later.

"I'm out of style now." Warhol said it himself — yet he keeps proving to be a sign of the times, over and over again. Was he ever really out of style? Or just too early, too often?

Today we celebrate the man who turned soup cans, celebrity, and self-invention into an art form that never went out of fashion.

08/05/2026

Roy Lichtenstein's Interiors series (1991–1992) is one of the most conceptually rich bodies of work from his late career — and one of the most overlooked. In this video I break down how Lichtenstein took the source imagery of furniture catalogues, decorating magazines, and lifestyle ads and ran it through his signature Pop machine: Ben-Day dots, flat color, bold black outlines. The result is a suite of "perfect" American living rooms that quietly ask a bigger question — where does furniture end and art begin?

I also get into the reflexive twist that makes this series so smart: several prints show framed artworks hanging on the walls of these imaginary rooms, echoing his Reflections work and folding art right back into the decorative economy he'd been dissecting since the 1960s.

If you're a collector, I cover what actually matters — condition and UV sensitivity on these large-format screenprints, the premium on hand-signed impressions, Corlett catalogue raisonné documentation, and why institutional interest in this series keeps climbing.

Nine works from the series are currently available at Guy Hepner Gallery, New York.

🔗 Full series + availability at the link.

Why Basquiat kept painting skulls.Not memento mori. Not shock value. The head was where everything he was thinking about...
08/03/2026

Why Basquiat kept painting skulls.

Not memento mori. Not shock value. The head was where everything he was thinking about collided — anatomy, ancestry, race, canonisation, death.

He pulled from Gray's Anatomy, the book his mother gave him after a childhood car accident. He pulled from African mask traditions and the skull imagery of Haitian Vodou, a nod to his own heritage. He boxed his figures into grids and labelled them like specimens, then crowned them.

That's the whole tension in one image: a body catalogued by others, and a figure insisting on its own greatness anyway.

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Available works and market advisory — link in bio.

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Music. Fashion. Film. And now, a portrait worthy of the canon. 🥰Harley Weir's striking new portrait of has entered the ...
08/02/2026

Music. Fashion. Film. And now, a portrait worthy of the canon. 🥰

Harley Weir's striking new portrait of has entered the collection of the , acquired through Collecting the Now, the Gallery's contemporary acquisitions fund supported by the .

See it now in History Makers on the ground floor of the National Portrait Gallery.

📸 Charli xcx by , 2024.

Here's how a client turned a 30% "discount" into a total loss.They trusted an AI condition report over 25 years of our e...
07/31/2026

Here's how a client turned a 30% "discount" into a total loss.

They trusted an AI condition report over 25 years of our experience, bought from a work-from-home dealer, and ended up with a fake — and a refund he can't afford to pay.

Now they want our help. 🐈‍⬛

Cheap advice is the most expensive thing you'll ever buy.

Tracey Emin's neons are the most intimate objects in contemporary art.They aren't slogans. They're her handwriting — lif...
07/30/2026

Tracey Emin's neons are the most intimate objects in contemporary art.

They aren't slogans. They're her handwriting — lifted from diaries, from letters she never sent, from things said at three in the morning.

She started making them in the late nineties, and the process hasn't changed since: her script, traced by hand, bent in glass by traditional signmakers. Every wobble in the line is hers.

That's the tension most people miss. Neon is the language of bars, motels, shopfronts — commerce, promises, come-ons. Emin uses it to say things that are almost too private to read out loud. I Promise to Love You. You Forgot to Kiss My Soul.

They're made in small editions, usually across several colours — and the colour does the work. The same phrase reads as a confession in white and a threat in red.

Twenty-five years on, they still stop a room.

A construction heir and Coca-Cola bottling executive, Dakis Joannou founded the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in...
07/29/2026

A construction heir and Coca-Cola bottling executive, Dakis Joannou founded the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens in 1983, long before contemporary art became a global luxury market.

Through DESTE, he has commissioned ambitious new works, supported emerging artists, and built one of the world’s most respected private collections.

His first major acquisition? Jeff Koons’ One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1985), purchased for just $2,700 after dealer Jeffrey Deitch introduced him to the artist. It would become one of the defining works of Koons’ career.

Over the following four decades, Joannou formed close relationships with artists including Jeff Koons, George Condo, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Paul McCarthy, and many others. Today, those friendships are reflected throughout his Athens residence, where museum-quality artworks coexist with icons of Radical Italian design by Archizoom Associati, Superstudio, Pierre Paulin, and Maurice Calka.

Photos: Igor Cvoro for DSCENE Magazine via@theartreporter

WARHOL — SELF-PORTRAITWarhol’s self-portraits sit at the centre of his print output, and they attract more inconsistent ...
07/28/2026

WARHOL — SELF-PORTRAIT

Warhol’s self-portraits sit at the centre of his print output, and they attract more inconsistent material than almost anything else in the market. A few things worth understanding before you commit.

Condition is where most of the value sits. The Fright Wig portraits in particular use pigments that are sensitive to light, and once colour has shifted there is no bringing it back. A work that has spent years in a bright room will read flat next to a well-kept example, and the difference in price between the two is substantial. Ask for a condition report and look at the sheet under natural light, not on a screen.

Then the paperwork. Every authentic Warhol print corresponds to a catalogue entry in Feldman & Schellmann, and the edition size, numbering, signature or estate stamp, and printer’s marks should all agree with what’s published. When one of those elements is missing or explained away, it usually warrants a closer look rather than a quicker decision.

Provenance matters more than collectors expect. A clean, documented chain of ownership affects both what you pay now and what the work does when it comes back to market.

Twenty-five years in the blue-chip secondary market has made these the questions we ask on every acquisition. Currently available — get in touch for condition details and recent comparables.

🔥 "I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."Resilience by — a raw meditation on s...
07/26/2026

🔥 "I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me."

Resilience by — a raw meditation on survival and inner strength, rendered on the artist's signature burning playing card. There's something unforgettable about work that finds beauty in the flames.

Exclusive new work by is being released shortly through Guy Hepner. Stay tuned — you won't want to miss what's coming next. 👑

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