Fine Art
Daffydils: A Cartoon Festschrift
Festschrifts, usually academic in nature, can also be jovial. An exceptional example, coming to auction in our Decem…
Records & Results: Contemporary Art
In our most encyclopedic offering of Contemporary Art to date, the November 16 auction saw active bidding, with work…
Arthur Luiz Piza
Arthur Luiz Piza, a Brazilian mixed media artist trained in Paris, leads an ever-growing section of Latin American a…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Specialists in the Field: The New Museum
Specialists at Swann keep up with the cultural heartbeat by frequenting museum exhibitions. Over the summer, we̵…
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…
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…
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…