Nervous start to New York auction season but Picasso sells for $121mn

The artist Peter Doig will donate all the proceeds from a new limited-edition print of the poet and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson to the George Padmore Institute, a London-based charity dedicated to documenting black communities in postwar Britain and continental Europe.

There are 150 available editions of the print that go on sale from November 9 through Paul Stolper Gallery, starting at £2,000 apiece. The immediate aim, Stolper says, is to raise £35,000 needed for urgent structural repairs to the GPI’s building on Stroud Green Road, which also houses the publishing business New Beacon Books.