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But with 300 different works of art by 100 separate artists in the prints show—including such high-profile names as Joseph Beuys, Richard Hamilton, Fiona Banner, Georg Baselitz, Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter—MoMA is confident this exhibition can more than hold its own.

On a tour of the exhibition highlights, MoMA curators Deborah Wye and Wendy Weitman pointed out a few of the stars of the show, many of which were mined from the museum’s own holdings.

One recent, never-before-shown addition to MoMA’s prints collection is Olafur Eliasson’s The Color Spectrum Series (2005), which consists of 48 separate images that explore sensory responses to color. The artist worked with Copenhagen printer Niels Borch Jensen to create the richly colored photogravures.

Also in the show are several multiples by Beuys—who, as Wye pointed out, famously said: “If you have all my multiples, you have all of me”—as well as an exquisite book of woodcuts by Anselm Kiefer.

Even among all these heavy hitters, one new name is likely to attract plenty of attention: Leonid Tishkov. The Russian illustrator has so far gone unnoticed in this county, but perhaps not for much longer. His hand-drawn Dabloids book, about the adventures of a severed foot, captured the curators’ fancy to such a degree that they expanded the exhibition’s scope to incorporate Russian artists.