Prints auction

February 8, 1980

Next week is "Print Week" at Sotheby Parke Bernett in New York. Print collectors and investors who can't afford the high prices for painting and sculpture will be able to purchase a wide range of prints and drawings in this unusual series of four auctions (all items to be exhibited Feb. 9-12 at 3 p.m.).

More than 600 19th and 20th-century prints, among them early Matisse etchings , aquatints by Miro, and prints by Picasso, will go on the block at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Feb.13, and at 10:15 a.m. on Feb. 14. On Feb. 14 at 2 p.m. -- the first auction devoted entirely to the prints and drawings of Mary Cassatt. "Fine old masterprints" by Rembrandt, Goya, and Callot will be auctioned on Feb. 15 at 10:15 a.m. and 2 p.m.