Ismar Littmann Family Collection Shines in Swann Galleries’ Prints & Drawings Sale Our sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 5 earned $2.7M, with property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism &…
The afternoon session of Swann’s April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints opens with more than 90 exceptional prints by James A.M. Whistler from a private collection, offered in their…
Max Beckmann’s drypoint Holzbrücke is among the German Expressionist works in our March 5 auction. Our March 5 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings features an exceptionally strong selection of…
Our upcoming 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings sale features an impressive selection of Martin Lewis prints, including etchings and drypoints that represent the entire span of his printmaking…
Among the items that Swann auctions are books, fine art prints, photographs, posters and maps–all of which have their own definition of the word “edition.” When it comes to prints,…
Lot 367: a Self-Portrait of Thomas Hart Benton. Our September 23 auction offers a particularly strong selection of American Regionalist examples including an extensive collection of Thomas Hart Benton lithographs.…
Swann Galleries’ September 23-24 auction contains nearly 800 lots, including an impressive selection of Modern European Prints and Drawings. Among these, works by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse stand out, and one of…
One of the most common questions we get asked at Swann is what it means when a lot is catalogued with the word “after” in parentheses following an artist’s name.…
Swann Galleries’ upcoming September 23 auction featuring American Prints & Drawings includes Blanche Lazzell’s Tulips, color woodcut on Japan paper, 1920, created by the artist in Provincetown, Massachusetts in 1920. Lazzell (1878-1956)…
This color lino cut of Jacqueline is one of approximately 20 artist’s proofs aside from the edition of 50 and estimated at $100,000 to $150,000. Among the highlights of our…
Pissarro’s Bathers, etching and drypoint, 1895 is a highlight of our March 6 auction. Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) was among the most significant players in the Impressionist movement, and co-wrote the…
Among the highlights of our March 6 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings is Pablo Picasso’s 1934 aquatint and etching Garçon et Dormeuse a la Chandelle. This…
List written by Picasso of European artists to be included in the 1913 Armory Show Though Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is considered one of the founders of the Cubist movement–with Georges…
Edvard Munch (1863-1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist and Expressionist painter/printmaker who, unlike the Impressionists in their focus on the natural world, looked inward to portray basic human conditions—love, jealousy, anxiety, loneliness, illness and…
Amid all of the shock, sensationalism and bewilderment surrounding many of the works in the 1913 Armory Show, much of the harshest criticism was levied at the paintings of Paul Cézanne, though…
Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) was a major dealer and publisher in Paris from the 1890s until his death in a car accident in 1939. Initially trained as a lawyer, he is now generally…
Edgar Degas’s etching and drypoint depicting Mary Cassatt at the Louvre; Lot 29 in Swann’s Armory Show at 100 auction Born in Philadelphia into a well-to-do family, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)…
Lot 20 in Swann’s Armory Show at 100 auction is Whistler’s 1889-90 lithograph, The Little Nude Model, Reading. There were four paintings by James A.M. Whistler (1834-1903) in the Armory…
Francisco Goya Y Lucientes, Pintor, aquatint and etching, 1799, from Los Caprichos Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828) was included in the Armory Show as the first artist in the organizers’…
This is the first in a series of posts about Swann’s upcoming November 5 auction titled The Armory Show at 100: America’s Introduction to Modern Art. The following essay by…
Fall seems the appropriate time to examine James Jacques Tissot’s luminous 1878 etching and drypoint titled Octobre. Tissot (1836-1902) was a successful French society artist who built his career on portraying fashionable women…
Swann will offer a László Moholy-Nagy gouache and watercolor Composition in our 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction tomorrow. Moholy-Nagy (1894-1946) was an influential Jewish-Hungarian artist known for…
Among the many exquisite unique works in Swann’s September 12 Prints & Drawings auction is a double-sided drawing by Edgar Degas, drawn during one of the artist’s visits to Rome.…
Among the highlights of our September 12 auction of 19th & 29th Century Prints & Drawings is Honoré Daumier’s Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834, a lithograph from 1834. Daumier…
Our March 7, 2013 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings saw collectors in the U.S. and Europe focusing on works by well-known artists including Picasso, Matisse, Whistler,…
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famed 1913 Armory Show. The seminal show was originally held in the 69th Regiment Armory at Lexington & 25th Street, just across…
Pablo Picasso reigned supreme in Swann’s September 20 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings. The top lot, Picasso’s Tête de Femme (Portrait de Jacqueline de Face II), brought…
Today’s 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings auction features Amedeo Modigliani’s Gaston Longchamp, a circa 1914 pencil drawing that was once in the collection of Gaston Longchamp himself. Amedeo Modigliani, Gaston Longchamp, pencil,…
Swann’s September 20 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings features several scarce works by James A.M. Whistler, including The Boy (Charlie Hanson), a drypoint from 1875-76 that…
Swann Galleries recently mounted a special Paris exhibition of work from our upcoming auction, Jean-Émile Laboureur: Prints, Paintings & Livres d’Artiste. Todd Weyman and Erin Bennett brought 75 works from…
Thanks to John D. Larson of Swann’s books department for this eye-opening post! Decadent! Erotic! Phantasmagoric! Fin-de-siècle grotesqueries! Gents and ladies disporting themselves, occasionally with a zealous attention…
Wednesday’s Old Master Through Modern Prints sale, paired with yesterday’s Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School sale, brought nearly $3,000,000, and set print records for several major…
This is the first in a series of posts about Swann’s October 27 auction of Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School. Stanley W. Hayter, Cronos, engraving, soft-ground…
How many print records can we set? Our September 22 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings set three auction records for prints by important artists. Furthering our…
Quarter of Nine–Saturday’s Children, drypoint, 1929. Estimate $15,000 to $20,000 Swann regularly offers works by Martin Lewis in the American Art sections of our Works on Paper auctions, and we…
Our October 27th and 28th two-part print sale, which began with Whistler and His Influence on Wednesday, set records. James A. M. Whistler’s Nocturne became the most expensive Whistler print ever…
James A. M. Whistler‘s work in lithography dates from three distinct periods of his career. His two earliest lithographs, from 1855, were made in the U.S. just prior to his…
