November 5, 2019Kelsie JankowskiOld Master Through Modern Prints Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print Read more about Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print With an offering from the past five centuries, our October 29, 2019 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints brought collectors exceptional works from key artists and included Rembrandt etchings from the John Villarino Collection. Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 9, 2019 Old Master Through Modern Prints Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Zapata Sets Print Record for Diego Rivera at $45k With seven records and a standout selection of Latin American art, our sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints on Thursday, May 2 offered works by the greatest… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Latin American Art April 24, 2019 Old Master Through Modern Prints Notes from the Catalogue: Latin American Art Our largest offering of Latin American prints and originals to date comes across the block in our Old Master Through Modern Prints sale May 2. Compiled into a separate catalogue,… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 5, 2018 Old Master Through Modern Prints Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Picasso Tops Old Master Through Modern Prints Auction at Swann Scarce Rembrandt Etching Draws Major Interest Our sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints opened with lively bidding in… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about On Picasso: Printmaker October 22, 2018 Old Master Through Modern Prints On Picasso: Printmaker Swann Galleries’ November 1 sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints contains nearly 500 lots, including an impressive selection of works by Pablo Picasso. Among these, two prints stand out: Le… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Prints About Town: Three Exhibitions and an Auction April 22, 2016 Old Master Through Modern Prints Prints About Town: Three Exhibitions and an Auction If you can’t get enough of the material coming up in our two-part auction of Old Master through Modern Prints, featuring A Collector’s Vision: Works on Paper from the Belle Époque… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints December 2, 2015 Old Master Through Modern Prints Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints Our biannual sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints on November 4 brought robust results for timeless collector and dealer favorites Picasso, Rembrandt, Dürer and Matisse. Lot 598: Pablo… Share Facebook Twitter
Read more about Fantastic Beasts and Figures of Myth in Old Master Through Modern Prints October 30, 2015 Old Master Through Modern Prints Fantastic Beasts and Figures of Myth in Old Master Through Modern Prints While works by the old masters are often known to depict religious scenes, their work occasionally strayed into fantastical territory as well, showing a range of creatures and myth. Here… Share Facebook Twitter
May 6, 2015 Old Master Through Modern Prints Records & Results; Old Master Through Modern Prints Our April auction brought in a total of $3.22 million, with three pieces by James A.M. Whistler going for spectacular six figure prices. Todd Weyman, Swann Galleries Vice President and… Share Facebook Twitter
October 25, 2014 Old Master Through Modern Prints Notes from the Catalogue: Diego Rivera’s Printmaking Career Diego Rivera (1886-1957), the painter who helped establish the Mexico Mural Movement and was a leading figure in Social Realism, was born in Guanajuato in North-Central Mexico. In 1897, Rivera… Share Facebook Twitter
April 28, 2014 Old Master Through Modern Prints Dreaming Youths: Oskar Kokoschka’s Transition to Expressionism Among the highlights of our April 29 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints is Oskar Kokoschka’s Die Träumenden Knaben, with text and eight color lithographs, 1906-08. Die Träumenden Knaben (The… Share Facebook Twitter
April 11, 2014 American Art Artwork from the Collection of Artist James D. Smillie Lot 290 in Swann’s April 29 auction is Smillie’s The Rocky Mountains (Lander’s Peak), set of 12 engravings after Albert Bierstadt, progressive proofs, 1865-66. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. This Spring, Swann… Share Facebook Twitter
April 4, 2014 Old Master Through Modern Prints What Does St. Anthony Read? This superb, richly inked Meder a impression of Durer’s St. Anthony Reading is estimated at $60,000 to $90,000. Swann Galleries remains the only U.S. auction house to devote regular sales… Share Facebook Twitter
May 6, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Top Lots: Old Master Through Modern Prints The first sale in Swann’s very busy May 2013 schedule of auctions was Old Master Through Modern Prints on the first day of the month. George Bellows’s 1917 lithograph A Stag at Sharkey’s brought… Share Facebook Twitter
April 29, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Notes from the Catalogue: Picasso’s Dora Maar Among the highlights of our May 1 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints is a brilliant, richly-inked impression of Pablo Picasso’s aquatint, scraper, burin and drypoint, Femme au fauteuil II: Dora Maar. This extremely… Share Facebook Twitter
April 26, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Full Frontal: Grant Wood’s Sultry Night The last time Swann auctioned Grant Wood’s 1939 lithograph Sultry Night, it brought $36,000–a record price for any print by the artist at auction. Another impression is among the highlights of… Share Facebook Twitter
April 25, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Notes from the Catalogue: Dürer’s Meisterstiche Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I, St. Jerome in His Study and Knight, Death and the Devil, all from 1514 and related in size, style and technical complexity, have been considered his… Share Facebook Twitter
February 13, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Top Lots: Old Master Drawings On January 29, after a five-year hiatus from sales of Old Master Drawings, Swann returned to the category during Old Masters Week in New York with an excellent sale of… Share Facebook Twitter
January 24, 2013 Old Master Through Modern Prints Likely J.M.W. Turner Original Watercolor Discovered In Swann’s January 29 Old Master Drawings Auction Exciting news from Swann’s Prints & Drawings Department: A watercolor in our upcoming Old Master Drawings auction that was catalogued as from the Circle of J.M.W. Turner has now been revealed to be,… Share Facebook Twitter
November 6, 2012 Old Master Through Modern Prints Vincent van Gogh’s Doctor Today’s auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints features an impression of Vincent van Gogh’s only etching, titled Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet. Following his clash with Paul Gauguin… Share Facebook Twitter
April 27, 2012 Old Master Through Modern Prints Top Lots: Old Master Through Modern Prints Wednesday’s sale of Old Master Through Modern Prints set several print records and saw strong results throughout every section of the sale, with American, European and Old Master prints achieving benchmark prices.… Share Facebook Twitter
April 20, 2012 Old Master Through Modern Prints Impressive Collection of American Prints in Next Week’s Sale Our April 25 auction of Old Master through Modern Prints contains a small but impressive assortment of American prints and drawings from the collection of a Virginia gentleman. The collector… Share Facebook Twitter
April 16, 2012 Old Master Through Modern Prints Whistler’s Jubilee Set in a Diamond Jubilee Year More than 120 years ago, 1887 marked the 50th anniversary of the coronation of Queen Victoria. James Whistler, then president of the Royal Society of British Artists, was invited to… Share Facebook Twitter
April 6, 2012 Old Master Through Modern Prints An Old Master “Collaboration” Among Rembrandt’s 350-plus recorded etchings, The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Seghers, circa 1653–a highlight in our April 25 auction–stands out as a unique example of his reuse of another… Share Facebook Twitter
October 28, 2011 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Records for Pollock, Whistler & Rembrandt in This Week’s Sale Wednesday’s Old Master Through Modern Prints sale, paired with yesterday’s Atelier 17, Abstract Expressionism & The New York School sale, brought nearly $3,000,000, and set print records for several major… Share Facebook Twitter