Fine Art

Illustration Art

Daffydils: A Cartoon Festschrift

Festschrifts, usually academic in nature, can also be jovial. An exceptional example, coming to auction in our Decem…

Contemporary Art

Records & Results: Contemporary Art

In our most encyclopedic offering of Contemporary Art to date, the November 16 auction saw active bidding, with work…

Contemporary Art

Arthur Luiz Piza

Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American a…

African American Art

Records & Results: African-American Fine Art

Four works exceeded $100,000 at our sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 5. A wealth of unique pai…

African American Art

Four Unique Works by Charles White Debut at Auction

The highlight of our October 5 auction of African-American Fine Art is a series of unique works by Charles White tha…

African American Art

Alma Thomas’s Journey to Abstraction

Alma Thomas is renowned for her brightly colored abstract works that seem to dance across canvas and paper, but how …

African American Art

John Biggers Mural Damaged by Hurricane Harvey

As Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston last month, an unlikely victim was left behind: the monumental 1953 mural…

African American Art

Specialists in the Field: Nigel Freeman at the Tate

Nigel Freeman, founder and director of our African-American Fine Art department, is in London this week visiting som…

Contemporary Art

Specialists in the Field: The New Museum

Specialists at Swann keep up with the cultural heartbeat by frequenting museum exhibitions. Over the summer, we̵…

American Art

Mrs. Stimson Joins Her Husband at the Huntington Historical Society

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis Stimson lived in an estate in Huntington, Long Island. In his memoir, he wrote of her, R…

American Art

Records & Results: American Art

We closed our Spring 2017 season with a climactic sale of American Art on Thursday, June 15. The annual auction offe…

American Art

Winslow Homer’s Personal “Bible”

On a visit to his Prout’s Neck studio, Winslow Homer’s friend and fellow artist John W. Beatty picked up…