Fine Art

Illustration Art

Examining Edward Gorey’s Market

Edward Gorey is having a moment. Gorey has had many of these over the years—he was the quintessential multifaceted a…

Master Printmakers: Picasso Working With the Crommelyncks

The following collection of scarce, early proofs by Pablo Picasso, as well as a maquette for an original ceramic, wa…

Modern & Post-War Art

Modern & Post-War Art: May 2021 Auction Highlights

Featuring works by Elaine de Kooning, John Little, John Wesley, and Robert Motherwell, as well as works by members o…

African American Art

13 Auction Records in Spring 2021 Sale of African American Art

Auction Brings $3.9 Million – Second-Highest Grossing Sale in Department Thirteen-Year History Our spring offering o…

African American Art

Artists Working in Mixed-Media & Assemblage

Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Vanessa German, Bisa Butler, and Dindga McCannon are assemblage artists that apply fo…

African American Art

Bohemian Brothers: Beauford and Joseph Delaney

The Delaney brothers became well-known painters in the downtown New York art scene in the 1930s and 40s—while each f…

Fine Art

Old Master Through Modern Prints: May 2021 Auction Highlights

With engravings, woodcuts, etchings, drypoints and more by both well-known and lesser-known esteemed master printmak…

African American Art

Play Ball!: The Unlikely Tradition of Baseball Ephemera at Swann

With the arrival of baseball’s Opening Day, spring is truly here. Swann does not handle baseball memorabilia in…

African American Art

African American Art: April 2021 Auction Highlights

At Auction April 22, 2021 Early 20th Century & Harlem Renaissance Modern Art Post-War Art Collection of the Ness…

Illustration Art

Early Women Cartoonists of The New Yorker

The New Yorker debuted in 1925 amid the country’s post-World War I economic boom and on the heels of the passag…

Claude Monet & George William Thornley: A Printmaking Partnership

At the end of the nineteenth century, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro rediscovered lithogra…

News

19th & 20th Century Art: March 2021 Auction Highlights

Featuring prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures by Mary Cassatt, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Wifredo Lam, Fern…