February 26, 2020Sarah McMillan19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings A Brief History of the Color Woodcut Read more about A Brief History of the Color Woodcut The color woodcut is best known for being one of the most difficult printmaking methods, but artists over the centuries have continually engaged with this medium, innovating new techniques to cut into a raw piece of wood or linoleum, transforming it into an image that inspires.
Read more about 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings: Upcoming in March 2020 January 28, 2020 Prints & Drawings 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings: Upcoming in March 2020 Prints, paintings and drawings include examples by Jean-François Millet, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Rufino Tamayo, Diego Rivera and others.
Read more about Il Guercino Leads Fall 2019 Old Master Drawings November 9, 2019 Prints & Drawings Il Guercino Leads Fall 2019 Old Master Drawings Our curated sale of Old Master Drawings on November 5, 2019, brought original works, studies and preparatory drawings from the most sought-after European draughtsmen from the past several centuries.
Read more about Rembrandt Etching of Pieter Haaring Brings a New Record for the Print November 5, 2019 Prints & Drawings 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.
Read more about Rembrandt Etchings from the John Villarino Collection October 9, 2019 Prints & Drawings Rembrandt Etchings from the John Villarino Collection Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction October 29 Over the course of his prolific career, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) completed more than 350 etchings and cemented his reputation as…
Read more about Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints October 2, 2019 Prints & Drawings Fall 2019: Old Master Through Modern Prints Old Master works include early tour-de-force impressions by Francisco José de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Antonio da Canal, Il Canaletto and Giovanni B. Piranesi. Further highlights in the art of printmaking from the nineteenth through the twentieth century include works by European and American masters Thomas Hart Benton, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Martin Lewis and Henri Matisse.
Read more about Fall 2019: Old Master Drawings October 1, 2019 Prints & Drawings Fall 2019: Old Master Drawings This auction traces the development of draftsmanship over several centuries from late-Gothic, early-Renaissance works of the fifteenth century, to Baroque and Rococo drawings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Read more about Rare Martin Lewis Etching Debuts in Fall 2019 Prints & Drawings Sale September 26, 2019 Prints & Drawings Rare Martin Lewis Etching Debuts in Fall 2019 Prints & Drawings Sale Swann Galleries opened the fall 2019 season with an exceptional sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings featuring an auction debut for a rare early print by Martin Lewis and a record price for a print by Edvard Munch.
Read more about Fall 2019: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings August 2, 2019 Prints & Drawings Fall 2019: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings This Prints & Drawings auction comes on September 19, 2019, and features mainstay American artists Edward Hopper, Martin Lewis, Howard Cook and George Bellows. European masters Georges Valmier, Pablo Picasso and M.C. Escher run alongside Latin American master Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo.
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…
Read more about Notes from the Catalogue: Latin American Art April 24, 2019 Prints & Drawings 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,…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints March 13, 2019 Prints & Drawings Upcoming Highlights: Old Master Through Modern Prints Featuring Latin American Art At Auction May 2 Complete Catalogue A selection of Old Master prints includes highlights from Rembrandt and Albrecht Dürer, as well as iconic engravings from the…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 8, 2019 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Ismar Littmann Family Collection Shines in Swann Galleries’ Prints & Drawings Sale Our sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 5 earned $2.7M, with property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism &…
Read more about The Story of the Ismar Littmann Family Collection February 14, 2019 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings The Story of the Ismar Littmann Family Collection Our March 5 sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings will feature Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde. Director of Prints…
Read more about Highlights from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism & European Avant-Garde February 11, 2019 Prints & Drawings Highlights from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism & European Avant-Garde A Historic Collection Few collectors in Breslau during the early 1900s had a passion for connoisseurship, collecting and the visual arts equal to Ismar Littmann, who amassed more than 6,000…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings February 4, 2019 Prints & Drawings Upcoming Highlights: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Featuring Property from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism & European Avant-Garde At Auction March 5 Complete Catalogue Our morning session will begin with Property from the…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 5, 2018 Prints & Drawings 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…
Read more about On Picasso: Printmaker October 22, 2018 Prints & Drawings 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…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings September 25, 2018 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Architectural Splendor Shines at Swann Galleries The fall season opened on September 20 with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings earning more than $2.4…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints September 15, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction November 1 Complete Catalogue Old Masters An exceptional selection of Old Master prints by visionaries such as Rembrandt van Rijn and Albrecht Dürer is led by the…
Read more about Architectural Splendor September 11, 2018 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Architectural Splendor From the Chrysler building to the Flatiron, and the numerous bridges that connect its many boroughs, New York’s architecture has come to stand as a symbol for the city. Our September…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings July 30, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings At Auction September 20 Complete Catalogue Twentieth Century The twentieth-century section boasts a number of exquisite original works by modern masters such as Georges Braque and Lyonel Feininger. Marc Chagall’s luminous…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 11, 2018 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints With highlights spanning six centuries, our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on May 8 offered works by the greatest innovators in the field. The sale totaled more than…
Read more about Ancient Then & Ancient Now: Piranesi’s Views of Rome May 7, 2018 Prints & Drawings Ancient Then & Ancient Now: Piranesi’s Views of Rome Giovanni Battista Piranesi spent eight years researching the ancient ruins of Rome before completing his magnum opus, Le Antichità Romane. A complete set of the 220 engravings in four volumes is a…
Read more about Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture in Etchings May 3, 2018 Prints & Drawings Rembrandt’s Self-Portraiture in Etchings The self portraits of Rembrandt van Rijn have been the focus of art historical examination since their creation nearly 400 years ago. Scarce examples from our May 8, 2018 auction…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints April 1, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: Old Master Through Modern Prints At Auction May 8 Old Master Through Modern Prints The highlight of this wide-ranging event from our Prints & Drawings department is Tête de femme, de profil, 1905, an…
Read more about #5WomenArtists: Lisa Crescenzo’s List March 30, 2018 Prints & Drawings #5WomenArtists: Lisa Crescenzo’s List As part of Women’s History Month, we’re offering a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We asked some women of Swann to tell us…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings March 15, 2018 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13 offered an especially grand selection of original works by some of the greatest artists of the last…
Read more about Monet: The Master at 16 March 8, 2018 Prints & Drawings Monet: The Master at 16 Before the term “Impressionism” and the overthrow of the established art world, Claude Monet was just a creative teenager. A rare example of Monet’s early experiments with en plein air…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings January 14, 2018 Prints & Drawings A Look Inside the Catalogue: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings Here’s an overview of our auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings on March 13: Diego Rivera’s scarce lithograph El sueño (La noche de los pobres), 1932, leads a…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints November 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints A new auction record for any print by American master Edward Hopper was established at our auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints on November 2. The extremely rare etching The…
Read more about Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction November 1, 2017 Prints & Drawings Works from Will Barnet’s Estate at Auction American artist Will Barnet is known for his intimate, foreshortened views of women with cats, but his oeuvre, spanning nearly a century, reveals a diverse and multifaceted artist who transcended…
Read more about Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings October 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings We opened our fall season with a marathon sale of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, breaking multiple records and earning more than $2.6M. The September 19 auction offered…
Read more about Who is Françoise Gilot? September 12, 2017 Prints & Drawings Who is Françoise Gilot? The top lot in our September 19 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings is a masterful lithograph by Pablo Picasso of his muse, Françoise Gilot. The following…
Read more about Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata September 8, 2017 Prints & Drawings Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata Some people made such an impact on history that we see them in multiple sales each season, across widely disparate genres. One such figure was Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who…
Read more about Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints May 4, 2017 Prints & Drawings Records & Results: Old Master Through Modern Prints On Tuesday, May 2, we offered Old Master Through Modern Prints, with highlights from as long ago as 1495 and as recent as 1959. The top lot of the…
Read more about Masters of Early Engraving April 28, 2017 Prints & Drawings Masters of Early Engraving Our May 2 auction of Old Master Through Modern Prints offers a rare opportunity to see works by some of the earliest scions of European engraving in the same place. Master…
Read more about Was Walter Sickert Really Jack the Ripper? February 27, 2017 Prints & Drawings Was Walter Sickert Really Jack the Ripper? Though the official identity of Jack the Ripper has never been determined, there are those who believe Walter Sickert, the Impressionist painter called the most talented British artist* between Joseph…
Read more about American Modernism: John Marin’s Brooklyn Bridge February 26, 2014 Prints & Drawings American Modernism: John Marin’s Brooklyn Bridge Swann Galleries’ March 6, 2014 auction of 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings features a run of etchings by John Marin that capture the dynamism of New York City…
Read more about Mary Cassatt: Celebrated Impressionist October 24, 2013 Prints & Drawings Mary Cassatt: Celebrated Impressionist Born in Philadelphia into a well-to-do family, Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) spent most of her adult life in Europe and, along with Berthe Morisot, went on to become one of the…
Read more about James A.M. Whistler in the 1913 Armory Show October 23, 2013 Prints & Drawings James A.M. Whistler in the 1913 Armory Show There were four paintings by James A.M. Whistler (1834-1903) in the Armory Show; all of which were figural works exhibited in Gallery P among significant French 19th century paintings.
Read more about Francisco José de Goya and Modern Art October 18, 2013 Prints & Drawings Francisco José de Goya and Modern Art Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828) was included in the Armory Show as the first artist in the organizers’ timeline of modern art. The chronology of modern art devised by Arthur B. Davies–president of the Armory Show exhibition committee, aka the Association of American Painters and Sculptors (AAPS)–grouped Goya with Ingres, Delacroix and Courbet as a forerunner of modern art.