NEW YORK, NY.- Swann Galleries’ 19th & 20th Century Art auction will open the fall 2025 season on Thursday, September 18 with an exciting offering of American, European and Latin American artists from across the two centuries.

The sale is headlined by Milton Avery’s 1949 oil painting In the Studio, an intimate look into the artist’s world ($300,000-400,000). In the Studio has remained in the same collection for more than 40 years and has never been to auction.

Further American art highlights include Alfred Heber Hutty’s winter landscape Early Snow, oil on canvas, circa 1920 ($30,000-50,000); a late-career painting by Arthur Dove, Spiral Road, oil on cans, 1940 ($50,000-80,000), which was shown at Alfred Stieglitz’s An American Place shortly after its completion in 1940; and a very rare reverse-painted glass work by Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses, Landscape, circa 1938 ($12,000-18,000). Also of note is Guy Pène Du Bois’s Conversation on the Balcony, oil on panel, 1926 ($30,000-50,000), Philip Pearlstein’s Nude Seated on Chair, oil on canvas, 1963-64 ($25,000-35,000), Will Barnet’s Boys on the Rug, oil on canvas, 1940 ($15,000-20,000), and Samuel Halpert’s Row of Tenement Buildings, oil on canvas ($7,000-10,000).

European highlights include an early painting by Italian artist Luigi Cima, Village Scene with Washerwomen, circa 1880 ($12,000-18,000); a humorous genre scene by José Benlliure y Gil, Sacrilegious Gamesters, oil on panel ($5,000-8,000); and Jean Fautrier’s Vase de fleurs, oil on canvas, circa 1929 ($30,000-50,000). Also on offer is a pen-and-ink drawing by George Grosz—Zur Arbeit, Paris, 1925, formerly in the collection of Vera Lazuk ($25,000-35,000).

Fine prints and multiples are led by Martin Lewis’s Which Way?, aquatint, 1932 ($25,000-35,000), as well as M.C. Escher’s Day and Night, color woodcut, 1935 ($20,000-30,000). Colorful and painterly prints by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, and others round out our offering of prints.