Modern & Post-War Art
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 mat…
Reintroducing Swann’s Fine Art Department
Swann Galleries announced on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, the reorganization of their fine art offerings under the leaders…
Surrealist Centennial: 100 Years of the Surrealist Manifesto
André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto was first published in 1924. Breton, a writer and member of an earlier art movem…
Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part II
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements II The post-war era of art, as an auc…
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — May 2, 2024
Highlights from the upcoming spring Modern & Post-War Art Sale.
Records & Results: The Artists of the WPA — January 25, 2024
Swann Galleries opened the winter 2024 season with the fourth iteration of The Artist of the WPA. The timed online a…
2023: Year in Review
Swann Galleries continued to offer exceptional auctions of quality material in 2023. The year featured several colle…
Auction Highlights: The Artists of the WPA — Timed Sale Closing January 25, 2024
Highlights from the December 14, 2023 auction of Illustration Art.
Essential Modern & Post-War Art Terms & Movements — Part I
Harold Porcher’s Illustrated Glossary of Modern & Post-War Movements In early 2020 I joined Swann and crea…
Auction Highlights: Modern & Post-War Art — November 30, 2023
The fall Modern & Post-War Art auction will include work from the early twentieth century through post-World War…
Artist Profile: Edith Schloss
Our May 25, 2023 Modern & Post-War Art auction features a wide array: from the Post-Impressionist era, a work on…
Modern & Post-War Art: May 25, 2023 Auction Highlights
Among the highlights are a large oil by African American abstract painter, Norman Lewis, dated 1966, and an oil from…