Modern + Contemporary: Art & Design
April 24th – May 9th
Final Bidding: Saturday, May 9th @ 10am CDT
Auction Preview: Thursday, May 7th & Friday, May 8th from 1-7pm
901 Woodswether Rd, Kansas City, MO 64105
Circle Auction is pleased to present Modern + Contemporary: Art & Design.
Headlining the sale is a notable oil by French Primitivist painter Henri Maik. Other fine art selections include original paintings by Robert Sudlow, Peter Max, Antonio Diego Voci, Robert Bingaman, Stan Herd, and Archie Scott Gobber; a collection of contemporary realist paintings by Jacob Collins, Richard Maury, Jacob Pfeiffer, Donald Jurney, Richard Thomas Davis, and Will Wilson; selections from the estates of Wilbur Niewald, Edward Navone, and Larry Thomas; signed prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Hnizdovsky, and Akio Takamori; and ceramics by Victor Babu, Marguerite Wildenhain, Tom Rippon, and Paul Soldner.
The sale also features modern furniture designed by Charles & Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, Clarence Teed, and Philippe Starck; as well as lamps by Cedric Hartman, Leon Houze, and Gerald Thurston.
You are invited to our open house preview to see the items in person:
Thursday, May 7th & Friday, May 8th from 1-7pm
901 Woodswether Rd, Kansas City, MO 64105
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Kansas City Collections
Circle Auction is accepting consignments for our upcoming 2026 Kansas City Collections. This signature sale features fine art and regionalist works, with a focus on leading Midwest artists like Benton, Sandzén, Curry, Grant Wood, and Bingham. We are also seeking rare coins, bullion, sterling, bronzes, fine jewelry, rare books, antiques, and other standout pieces. Have something exceptional? We’d love to review it.
The Lithographs of Thomas Hart Benton: The Decker Collection
A rare single-owner group of Thomas Hart Benton lithographs, collected by Dr. Clarence R. Decker (UKC president, 1938–1953). Many are personally inscribed to Clarence and Mary Decker, reflecting their documented personal connection with Benton in Kansas City. Highlights include Prayer Meeting, commissioned by Decker in 1949 and recorded in Creekmore Fath’s catalogue raisonné. Fresh to market from long-term family ownership.