Circle Auction is pleased to present Modern + Contemporary: Art & Design, curated selections for your modern home. Highlighting the sale are paintings by Henri Maik, Robert Sudlow, Peter Max, Wilbur Niewald, Archie Scott Gobber, Antonio Diego Voci, and Ed Navone; contemporary realist works by Jacob Collins, Richard Maury, Jacob Pfeiffer, and Richard Thomas Davis. Pottery and prints by Robert Rauschenberg, Jacques Hnizdovsky, and Victor Babu; and modern designs by Charles & Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Florence Knoll, Eero Saarinen, and Cedric Hartman.
Circle Auction is proud to offer an outstanding collection of lithographs by artist Thomas Hart Benton, assembled by the late Dr. Clarence R. Decker, the president of the University of Kansas City from 1938-1953. Under Decker's tenure in that position, he helped to grow the university many times over, and he played an instrumental role in its accreditation. Decker created a program inviting visiting artists including Benton. Creekmore Fath's catalogue raisonne of Benton prints notes that Decker commissioned the lithograph "Prayer Meeting" (1949), circulated by the UMKC bookstore.