Spring Fever

N MAY 22, Showplace of New York will present a 145-lot auction titled “Fine Art & Design: Spring 2022.” As befits a spring show, the colors of is an Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas with blocks of bright colors by Yvonne Thomas (1913–2009), a French-born American artist. Also on the block is a brilliantly colored abstract ceramic sculpture by Ken Price (1935–2012), a daring artist whose pieces are playful commentaries on the functional uses of ceramics. Of his first one-person show in 1960, when he was only 25, the art critic Lucy Lippard wrote, “No one else, on either the east or west coast, is working like Ken Price.”