Auction Highlights: 20th Century Fine Art — June 26, 2025

At Auction Thursday, June 26 at 12 PM ET

The Fine Art departments are joining together to present our first 20th Century Fine Art auction, which offers for sale paintings, drawings and prints illustrating the breadth of art created during the twentieth century. From early important European works such as Kees van Dongen’s Tête de femme, an iconic depiction of one of his almond-eyed girlsto Wolf Kahn’s brilliantly colored Wooded Landscape, the sale presents a variety of art from movements that defined the century.

Important illustrators such as Norman Rockwell and other significant American artists like Martin Lewis are included. Other print highlights are a rare, signed proof of Vase by Maurits Cornelis Escher from the XXIV Emblemata series and Joan Miró’s large Le Pitre Rose.

The second half of the twentieth century is represented by works by Horace Clifford Westermann, Alexander Calder and Philip Guston. The sale also presents a strong selection of African American art, including works by Albert Alexander Smith and Benny Andrews’ oil and canvas collage Blue and White Still Life, along with pieces by Raymond Howell, Faith Ringgold and Jacob Lawrence.

Martin Lewis, Wet Night, Route 6, drypoint, 1933. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Kees van Dongen, Tête de femme, oil on paper mounted to canvas, circa 1907. Estimate $75,000 to $100,000.
Benny Andrews, Blue and White Still Life, oil and canvas collage on linen canvas, 1962. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Joan Miró, Le Pitre Rose, color etching and aquatint, 1974. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Philip Guston, The Street, lithograph on Arches, 1970. Estimate $5,000 to $8,000.
Albert Alexander Smith, Water Sports (A Sunday Game in Courbevoie, France), oil on linen canvas, circa 1920s. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
M. C. Escher, Vase, woodcut on thin Japan paper, 1931. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Pablo Picasso, Tête d’Histrion (Le Danseur), color linoleum cut on Arches, 1965. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000.
Norman Rockwell, Portrait of my teacher, Tom Fogarty, chalk on paper, 1913. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
Frank Stick, Two setters, oil on canvas, circa 1920. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000.
Horace Clifford Westermann, Death Ship of No Port, (Sketch for Sculpture), ink on paper, 1966. Estimate $5,000 to $7,000.
Wolf Kahn, Wooded Landscape, pastel on wove paper. Estimate $4,000 to $6,000.