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2026 Benefit Auction: "The World Is The Work"

Tue, Sep 29, 2026 12:00PM EDT - Wed, Oct 14, 2026 12:00PM EDT
  2026-09-29 12:00:00 2026-10-14 12:00:00 America/New_York Drawing Center Drawing Center : 2026 Benefit Auction: "The World Is The Work" https://auction.drawingcenter.org/auctions/the-drawing-center/2026-benefit-auction-the-world-is-the-work-24728
This year's benefit auction and exhibition, "The World Is The Work", brings together artists, curators, and art lovers from The Drawing Center's community. Each guest curator will present a selection of five or more works on paper by artists they admire. Works will be on view at The Drawing Center from October 7 through October 11, and will be available for purchase through a silent auction benefiting The Drawing Center and participating artists. Bidding will begin on September 29 at 12:00 pm ET and end on October 14 at 12:00 pm ET. The Drawing Center rbrickman@drawingcenter.org
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Roz Chast, "Cooler Conversation", n.d.
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Roz Chast, "Cooler Conversation", n.d.

Estimate: $2,500 - $2,500
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Cooler Conversation, n.d.
Pen and ink with wash
10 x 9 inches (25.4 x 22.86 cm)

 

Courtesy of the artist

 

Selected by Laura Hoptman

 

 

Roz Chast is known for turning everyday anxieties into sharply funny, unmistakably personal cartoons. She has been one of the most influential cartoonists of her generation, earning many honors including the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 2015 as well as National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2024. 

 

Born in Brooklyn in 1954, Chast was the only child of public school teachers. Discovering Charles Addams’s work at the age of nine sparked a fascination with cartooning that never left her. After earning a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1977, Chast returned to New York and to her initial love of cartooning. Her work began appearing in the Village Voice and the National Lampoon, and in 1978, she sold her first cartoon to The New Yorker. Her cartoons and covers for The New Yorker have been published continuously since then. 

 

Her 2014 memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, about caring for her aging parents, became a critical and commercial success, winning major awards and becoming the first graphic novel to be named a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Award. It also won the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, as well as many other awards.

Overall Dimensions
Height: 10.00 in
Width: 9.00 in

Artworks purchased at the auction will be available for pickup at The Drawing Center beginning on October 19, 2026. Wrapping of the artwork is provided.

Please call ahead (212.219.2166 x216) to let us know when you plan to come pick up your work.

Shipping is the responsibility of the purchaser. Upon request, our staff will provide a list of shippers who deliver to destinations within the United States and overseas.