Auction Highlights | 19th & 20th Century Art
At Auction September 18, 2025
The 19th & 20th Century Art auction will feature exciting European, American and Latin American artists from across the two centuries.
American Art
Arthur Dove, Spiral Road, oil on canvas, 1940. Estimate $50,000 to $80,000.
American highlights include Milton Avery’s 1949 oil painting In the Studio, an intimate look into the artist’s world. This painting has remained in the same collection for more than 40 years and has never been to auction.
We will also be offering a late-career painting by Arthur Dove, Spiral Road, which was shown at Alfred Stieglitz’s An American Place shortly after its completion in 1940. From the same era, we will offer a very rare reverse-painted glass work by Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses.
Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, Landscape, oil on glass, circa 1938. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
European Art
Luigi Cima, Village Scene with Washerwomen, oil on canvas, circa 1880. Estimate $12,000 to $18,000.
European highlights include an early painting by Italian artist Luigi Cima and a humorous genre scene by José Benlliure y Gil. Another interesting lot we will offer is a pen-and-ink drawing by George Grosz—Zur Arbeit, Paris —formerly in the collection of Vera Lazuk.
José Benlliure y Gil, Sacrilegious Gamesters, oil on panel. Estimate $5,000 to $8,000.
George Grosz, Zur Arbeit, Paris, reed pen and ink on paper, 1925. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
Fine Art Prints
M.C. Escher, Day and Night, color woodcut, 1935. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Martin Lewis’s aquatint, Which Way?, leads among fine prints and multiples, as well as M.C. Escher’s color woodcut Day and Night. Colorful and painterly prints by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and others round out our offering of prints.
Martin Lewis, Which Way?, aquatint, 1932. Estimate $25,000 to $35,000.
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