Circle Auction is pleased to present the March 2025 Modern + Contemporary auction, consisting of exciting fine art and design collected from around the Kansas City area. Original paintings and mixed media by Christo, Lois Dodd, Wilbur Niewald, Theophilus Brown, Jane Dickson, Bernard Chaet, Fred Dalkey, Nick Vaccaro, and Barbara Frets.
Signed prints and multiples by Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, Helen Frankenthaler, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Jim Dine, Grandma Layton, Roger Shimomura, Robert Daughters, Dan Christensen, Steve Kaufman, Anthony Quinn, and Gene Davis. Photography by Edward Weston, Robert ParkeHarrison, Michael Kenna, Ray Metzker, James Welling, Elijah Gowin, Nicholas Nixon, Terry Evans, Bill Witt, and Eadweard Muybridge.
Sculpture and design by Dale Chihuly, Val Bertoia, Christopher Ries, Steve Kestrel, Ernest Trova, Janet Kuemmerlein, Silvia Davis, Sergio Bustamante, Tom Corbin, Angel Botello, and Carl Aubock III. Ceramics by Rick Dillingham, Robert Chapman Turner, Frank Fleming, Andrea Gill, Ken Ferguson, Victor Babu, George Timock, Bodil Manz, and Svend Hammershoi.
Furniture designed by Hans Wegner, Mies van der Rohe, Charlotte Perriand, Alvar Aalto, Richard Schultz, Shiro Kuramata, Karl Springer, Folke Ohlsson, Poul Cadovius, Albert Parvin, Peter Lovig Nielsen, and several original prototypes by architect Roger Kraft. Lighting designed by Max Sauze, Mario Arnaboldi, Edward Wormley, Frank Ligtelijn, Tony Paul, and Robert Sonneman.
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