Title: AMERICAN ART / CONTEMPORARY ART
Date: November 15, 2012
Time: at 10:30 AM & 2:00 PM
Exhibition: Sat., November 10, noon-5
Mon., November 12, 10-6
Tues., November 13, 10-6
Wed., November 14, 10-6
Contact Person: Todd Weyman
tweyman@swanngalleries.com

The afternoon session features prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture and portfolios from important contemporary artists including Albers, Basquiat, Calder, Haring, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Warhol and more.

The afternoon session of Contemporary Art, lots 123-316, features prints, paintings, drawings, sculpture and portfolios from important contemporary artists including Albers, Basquiat, Calder, Haring, Lichtenstein, Motherwell, Warhol and more.

Highlights include:

A 1899 watercolor by Edward Hopper, inscribed with the Rudyard Kipling verse '"Maiden, wait," the ripple saith; "Wait awhile, for I am death!"' Shown top left.

Andrew Wyeth's The Mill House at Ivy Mills, Pennsylvania, watercolor, circa 1962, a wedding gift from the artist to the current owner.

Two oil studies by Josef Albers for his iconic Homage to the Square, offered together, circa 1969.

Several pop art prints, including works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. Shown left, Lichtenstein's Crak!, color lithograph, 1964.

A Jean-Michel Basquiat print entitled Rome Pays Off, color screenprint, 2004.