Auction Highlights: 20th Century Fine Art — June 26, 2025 At Auction Thursday, June 26 at 12 PM ET Catalogue & Bidding 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 girls, to 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. Sign-up for Email Updates Download the Swann Galleries App Share Facebook Twitter June 3, 2025Author: Sarah McMillanCategory: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Tags: 20th century art 20th century movements African American Art Albert Alexander Smith Alexander Calder American Art American artists aquatint art auction art collecting auction catalog Benny Andrews canvas collage chalk contemporary art drawings drypoint etching European art European artists Faith Ringgold fine art auction fine art prints Harry James Westerman illustration Jacob Lawrence Joan Miro Kees van Dongen linoleum cut Martin Lewis Maurits Cornelis Escher Modern Art Norman Rockwell oil painting paintings pastel philip guston printmaking prints Raymond Howell screenprint wolf kahn woodcut Previous Records & Results: Modern & Post-War Art — May 22, 2025 Next The Golden Age of Paperback Cover Illustrations: A Look at the History of Pulp Fiction Paperback Illustration Recommended Posts Let It Snow: Guy C. Wiggins’s Views of New York City American Art May 22, 2014 Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master Through Modern Prints May 9, 2019 Modern Daguerreotypes & More Photographs & Photobooks April 13, 2017