Pablo Picasso Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Joan Miro Marc Chagall Rembrandt van Rijn National Gallery’s Penny Defends Picasso Show Impressionist Auction Comes Up Short in Paris The Block and the Booth

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On All Hallows Eve, Swann Galleries will conjure up images from the art world’s greatest masters during a day-long sale event featuring more than 700 fine prints by such legends as Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso and Miro.

At least 100 works will be for offered during the Oct. 31 morning auction of Important Old Master Prints.

Highlights include two Rembrandts priced at $30,000-50,000: Self-Portrait Open-Mouthed as if Shouting (1630) and The Windmill (1641); Durer’s rare Rhinoceros (1515) (est. $15,000-20,000); and Rubens’s 1620 etching of St. Catherine (est. $12,000-$18,000).

Next up on the block is a selection of roughly 600 prints from 19th- and 20th-century masters, which will be sold in two parts.

Among the works from the 19th century are Toulouse-Lautrec’s Femme au Tub (1896) and Partie de Campagne (1897), which both carry a pre-sale estimate of $50,000-75,000; an exceedingly scarce 1874 pen lithograph by Pissarro entitled Femme Assise au Bord d’un Etang (est. $25,000-35,000); and Paul Signac’s color lithograph Saint Tropez II (1894) (est. $15,000-20,000).

Highlights of the 20th-century sale include Oda a Joan Miro (1973), a portfolio of nine color lithographs by Miro (est. $50,000-75,000); a complete set of Georges Rouault’s Cirque de L’Etoile Filante (1938) (est. $35,000-50,000); Stuart Davis’ 1931 Sixth Avenue El lithograph (est. $30,000-50,000); and Chagall’s 1948 color lithograph So I came forth from the sea (est. $20,000-30,000).

The top lot of the day, though, is sure to be Picasso’s much sought-after and very rare drypoint Le Repas Frugal from 1904, which is estimated to be worth $80,000-120,000.