Heritage Auctions will offer George Morrison's painting *Palisade* (1958) as the highlight of its May 7, 2026 Modern & Contemporary Art Signature Auction. The 76-lot sale features a global survey of postwar and contemporary abstraction, including works by Takeo Yamaguchi, Fritz Winter, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Wayne Thiebaud, Fernando Botero, David Bates, KAWS, and George Rickey.
The auction comes at a moment of heightened institutional recognition for Morrison, an Ojibwe artist whose contributions to postwar abstraction are increasingly acknowledged alongside his New York contemporaries. Heritage's director Taylor Curry notes that growing museum attention—underscored by a current exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art—is translating into real auction momentum, reflecting a broader shift in the market's valuation of Indigenous modernist artists.