He Disappeared Into Complete Silence A highlight in our November 15 Contemporary Art sale is one of 19 known complete copies of Louise Bourgeois’ He Disappeared Into Complete Silence, 1947.…
Keith Haring in his Pop Shop. More on the history of this bygone space can be found at pop-shop.com. In the 1980s, street and mural artist Keith Haring became well…
Examples of Fluxus artwork appear in many of our auctions, and demand seems to be on the rise for works by the group, which was active from the early 1960s through…
A highlight in our upcoming auction of Contemporary Art is a leather jacket tagged by various 1980s graffiti artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). These artists frequented the popular four-floor after-hours…
Lot 65: Sol LeWitt’s Figures in a Landscape, oil on canvas, 1960. Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) was a pioneering figure in the establishment of Minimalism and Conceptualism during the postwar era.…
Among the Andy Warhol prints in Swann’s upcoming auction of Contemporary Art is GA-43 Robot, a unique color screenprint on canvas from 1983. Warhol melded printmaking and painting, blurring the line…
June 5th marked the opening of Ellsworth Kelly Plant Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a summer-long show of approximately 80 drawings. With some work from as early as 1948, the…
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, screenprint on Strathmore paper, 1951 (printed 1964). The 1940s marked the moment of Stanley W. Hayter’s greatest influence–not only among printmakers–in the emergence of Abstract Expressionism…
Jackson Pollock, Untitled, drypoint and engraving, circa 1944-45. The tradition of the artist-printmaker was not a fully developed one in the late 19th- and early 20th-century United States. Few American artists…
Jared French’s Siren brought $138,000; the third highest auction price ever for a Jared French painting. The top lot in yesterday’s auction of American Art and Contemporary Art was Jared French’s…
The 1980s street and mural artist Keith Haring’s brightly colored graphic artwork has become synonymous with the late 20th century interplay of pop art and social activism. While his shapes…
