This Season’s Successes: Winter-Spring 2024 Auctions in Review In the 2024 Winter-Spring season, Swann Galleries continued to provide high-quality auctions of unusual and rare material. Several single-owner collections were featured, including Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer, Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America, and An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra Pearl & Fine Photographs. We bid farewell to our longtime Prints & Drawings director Todd Weyman, and ushered in a new era for our restructured Fine Art Department. Take a look at some of this season’s highlights below! Artists of the WPA Claude Clark, Drafting, oil on thin board, circa 1940-41. Sold for $17,500 in January 2024. Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (variant), silver print, 1936 (printed circa 1990s). Sold for $16,250 in January 2024. The Subculture Sale Robert Frank, Seminal publisher Barney Rosset’s copies of the first French and English editions of Frank’s The Americans, 1958. Sold for $12,500 in February 2024. Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol / The Velvet Underground and Nico, letterpress poster, 1966. Sold for $15,000 in February 2024. An American Century: The Collection of Dr. James & Debra Pearl & Fine Photographs From left to right: Ansel Adams, Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, silver print, 1927; printed 1973-77. Sold for $35,000 in February 2024. Irving Penn, Breton Onion Seller, London, from the Small Trades series, silver print, 1950-51. Sold for $35,000 in February 2024. Vintage Posters & Graphic Design Akseli Gallen-Kallela, BIL – BOL, 1907. Sold for $62,500 in February 2024. Alphonse Mucha, Documents Décoratifs, complete portfolio with 72 plates, 1902. Sold for $22,500 in February 2024. Autographs Torquato Tasso, autograph manuscript signed, “Torq Tasso,” fair copy of his poem, “La Fenice,” in Italian. circa 1586. Sold for $106,250 in June 2024. Benjamin Franklin, autograph letter signed to diplomat Arthur Lee Arranging a meetings about MA Governor’s alleged treason, Sold for $27,500 in June 2024. 19th & 20th Century Art Henry Moore, Figure Studies, watercolor, ink, wash, wax resist, pastel, pencil, gouache and crayon on wove paper, circa 1948. Sold for $37,500 in March 2024. Pablo Picasso, Fleurs, color crayons on cream wove paper, 1959. Sold for $81,250 in March 2024. Printed & Manuscript African Americana Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, 1958. Sold for $35,000 in March 2024. Broadside for Ira Aldridge’s performance of Shakespeare–and Jim Crow, letterpress broadside, 1840. Sold for $27,500 in March 2024. African American Art Hughie Lee-Smith, Ball Player, oil on linen canvas, 1970. Sold for $341,000 in April 2024. Benny Andrews, Time for Church, oil with painted canvas, lace collage and staples on cotton canvas, 1999. Sold for $203,000 in April 2024. Fine Books Miguel de Cervantes, El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha, third Madrid Cuesta edition, Madrid, 1608. Sold for $106,250 in April 2024. William Milligan Sloane, Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, New York, 1896. Sold for $45,000 in April 2024 Old Master Through Modern Prints Maurits C. Escher, Circle Limit IV (Heaven and Hell), woodcut on Japan paper, 1960. Sold for $93,750 in April 2024. Winslow Homer, Perils of the Sea, etching, 1888. Sold for $93,750 in April 2024. Modern & Post-War Art William Grosvenor Congdon, The City, oil and gouache on board, 1949. Sold for $47,500 in May 2024. Fritz Koenig, Quadriga, bronze, 1959. Sold for $81,250 in May 2024. Tennis & Sports Posters: Collection of the Schwartz Family & Tennis Corporation of America Roger Broders, Monte – Carlo, circa 1930. Sold for $12,500 in May 2024. Edward Penfield, Western Lawn Tennis Tournament / Kenwood Country Club. 1896. Sold for $11,250 in May 2024. Focus on Women Dr. Lora Genevieve Dyer, Very Large Archive including Journals, Letters, Photographs, and More. 1899-1954. Sold for $32,500 in May 2024. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, inscribed first edition, Philadelphia & New York, 1960. Sold for $62,500 in May 2024. Contemporary Art Lynne Drexler, Bluescape, oil on canvas, 1961. Sold for $87,500 in June 2024. Andy Warhol, Life Saver, color screen print on Lenox Museum Board, 1985. Sold for $87,500 in June 2024. Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books Robert John Thornton, New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus Comprehending … the Temple of Flora, or Garden of Nature, 1794-1806. Sold for $45,000 in June 2024. Claes Janszoon Visscher; after Hessel Gerritsz, Nova XVII Provinciarum, Germaniae Inferioris Tabula, Leonis Effigie, Accurate Delineata, 1630. Sold for $27,500 in June 2024. Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights from the Collection of Jules Feiffer Frank Miller, “The Blind Leading the Blind.” comic book page appearing in the Spectacular Spider-Man, ink over pencil on board, February, 1979. Sold for $60,000 in June 2024. Kay Nielsen, The Nightingale, unpublished illustration, watercolor, gouache and graphite, circa 1924. Sold for $20,000 in June 2024. Printed & Manuscript Americana The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi, first edition, Palmyra, NY, 1830. Sold for $185,000 in June 2024. Frederick Douglass. Oration Delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester. 39 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers. 1852. Sold for $87,500 in June 2024. Browse the Fall 2024 Season & Consign with Swann Share Facebook Twitter July 15, 2024Author: Chloe LesserCategory: 19th & 20th Century Literature Tags: 19th & 20th Century Art African American Art Akseli Gallen-Kallela Alphonse Mucha Andy Warhol Ansel Adams Artists of the WPA autographs Benjamin Franklin Benny Andrews claude clark contemporary art Don Quixote Dorothea Lange Edward Penfield fine books Focus on Women Frank Miller Frederick Douglass fritz koenig Graphic Design Green Book Harper Lee Henry Moore Hughie Lee-Smith illustration art Ira Aldridge Irving Penn Kay Nielsen Lynne Drexler M. C. Escher Maps & Atlases Miguel de Cervantes Modern & Post-War Art Old Master through Modern Prints Pablo Picasso Photographs & Photobooks Printed & Manuscript African Americana Printed & Manuscript Americana Robert Frank Roger Broders Subculture The Book of Mormon The Subculture Sale To Kill A Mockingbird Torquato Tasso Victor H. 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