Our May Modern & Post-War Art auction brings together the many subcategories of Modernist art, offering a tremendous range of techniques and philosophies.
The Whitney Museum of American Art’s recent exhibition, Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945, was a comprehensive evaluation of post-revolution art in…
Works in photography, cartography, printmaking, posters, and painting are all represented in Swann's Artists of the WPA sale, reflecting on how the early twentieth century changed…
This October Modern & Post-War art auction will feature works by Janice Biala, Joe Brainard, William Grosvenor Congdon, Lynne Drexler, Helen Frankenthaler, Karl Knaths, Paul…
André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was first published in 1924. Breton, a writer and member of an earlier art movement known as Dada, penned the ideas of himself and his…
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II The post-war era of art, as an auction category, is simply a construct used to differentiate art…
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements In early 2020 I joined Swann and created the Modern & Post-War Art department. This category…
The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War II art movements such as Pop, Minimalism, and Abstract…
