THE TRUMP ET • WI NTER / S PR I NG 2 0 1 3 • VOLUME 2 7 , NUMBER 2
The dawn of a new year is a time for reflection—and
what a year we have to look back on. 2012 saw the most
successful book department sale in our 70-year history,
when Revolutionary Americana from the Allyn Kellogg
Ford Collection brought more than $2 million. And, in
October, the first lot to hammer down at Swann for more
than $1 million—a complete set of Edward S. Curtis’s
The North American Indian
—brought $1.44 million. The
following week we achieved an auction record price
of $144,000 for Gustav Klimt’s only monograph,
Das
Werk von Gustav Klimt
, and, in November, we sold the
A.M. Cassandre poster
L.M.S / Best Way
, London, 1928 for
$156,000—an auction record price for any poster by the artist.
Of course, the changing of the calendar is also an occasion
for looking forward and anticipating what’s to come. Old
Master Drawings make their return to Swann’s auction
block for the first time in several years, and for the first
time ever illustrations take center stage, with a sale of 20th
Century Illustration that features a collection of Maurice
Sendak works. There are also winsome Art Nouveau
posters; stellar examples of African-American Fine Art,
including works to be sold by the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, for the benefit of the collection; our second Fine
&VintageWriting Instruments sale; and our annual auction
of Printed & Manuscript African Americana, with material
from slavery through the modern civil rights movement.
Check out the schedule on page 7 for a complete list of
sales through June 2013, and have a happy, healthy and
peaceful new year!
WELCOME 2013
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