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September 4, 2019|Swann News|Illustration art

Artist Profile: Charles Addams

With a proclivity to the grim, grisly and gruesome, Charles Addams walked through life illuminating its incongruous funny bones and sore spots. Here we discuss his contributions to The New Yorker and his famous kooky family.

August 30, 2019 | African-American Fine Art

Artist Profile: Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis was an Abstract Expressionist painter and a member of The Irascibles who developed as a painter as the New York Modern Art scene grew. Here we discuss Lewis’s rise from the margins to art market center.

July 22, 2019 | Swann

Swann in Profile: Lauren Goldberg

With the newly opened Poster House museum as a backdrop, we spoke with Specialist Lauren Goldberg in our Vintage Posters Department about, well, what else—posters! You’ve been at…

July 17, 2019 | Pride

Telling Queer Stories: The Challenges of Unearthing a History

What are the inherent challenges in telling a history that is still being unearthed, and what can media and material objects add to that story? Against the backdrop of the…

July 8, 2019 | Photographs & Photobooks

Artist Profile: Margaret Bourke-White

From the daguerreian age of the 1840s, photography has been an equal-opportunity pastime. One artist who truly pushed the envelope was Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971), an ambitious photographer of many firsts.

July 1, 2019 | Swann

2019 Spring Season in Review

A season of firsts. The 2019 spring auction season at Swann Galleries delivered an impressive range of sales, rife with auction premiers and record prices. We started our season off…

July 1, 2019 | Swann

Swann Summer Reading List 2019

As an auction house that has specialized in rare and antiquarian books for nearly 80 years, it is unsurprising that our team loves reading. What better circumstance to do so…

June 27, 2019 | Pride

Records & Results: The Pride Sale

Historic Pride Sale at Swann Brings Market Premiers and Auction Records The Pride Sale on Thursday, June 20 offered a curated selection of LGBTQ+ art, photography, literature, autographs…

June 17, 2019 | Pride

Notes from the Catalogue: Hank O’Neal & Allen Ginsberg

The Gay Day Archive Today, at least a million spectators line the Pride parade route along Fifth Avenue each year. But in its earliest days, the celebration was a much smaller event…

June 12, 2019 | Pride

Notes from the Catalogue: Candy Darling

“Every woman who wants to be beautiful should be beautiful” Among the many items up for auction in our June 20 Pride Sale, is an archive of personal effects of Candy Darling an enduring trans icon, American actress…

May 29, 2019 | Pride

An Introduction to the Catalogue by Eric Marcus

The Pride Sale An Exploration & Celebration of the Art, Influence & History of the LGBTQ+ Community A few weeks ago we invited Eric Marcus, the founder and host of…

May 6, 2019 | African-American Fine Art

Swann in Profile: Atina Sutton

Following up on our recent sale of African-American Fine Art, we sat down with Atina Sutton to discuss all things Swann, art and what’s current. You’ve been at…

May 3, 2019 | Pride

The Pride Sale

An Exploration & Celebration of the Art, Influence & History of the LGBTQ+ Community Our first Pride Sale, being held in the same month as WorldPride and the 50th anniversary…

February 26, 2019 | Books

Swann Galleries’ Guide to Rare Book Week 2019 in NYC

Rare Book Week kicks off March 5 in NYC. We gathered a selection of our favorite events happening throughout the week, as well as several not-to-be-missed exhibitions. See you there!…

December 21, 2018 | Swann

2018: Year in Review

A year of records, debuts and rediscovered works. As we reflect on 2018, we look back at an excellent year of auctions. In April we held our highest-grossing African-American Fine Art…

December 14, 2018 | Auctions 101

How to Consign to an Auction

Thinking about selling at auction? Allow us to be of assistance. Swann is a third-generation family business and the oldest specialty auction house in New York City, known for our…

November 9, 2018 | Auctions 101

Optimize Your Swann Client Account

A Swann Client Account enables you to Track Lots, create Keyword Alerts and place order bids. Use this guide to get the most out of these features. Don’t have a…

September 26, 2018 | Auctions 101

Shipping it Yourself? A Few Tips

Guidelines for Packing & Shipping You’ve spoken to a specialist, received preliminary estimates, and are ready to send your material to Swann for placement in an auction. Thinking about…

July 18, 2018 | Contemporary Art

Specialists in the Field: Rockaway! 2018

Lauren Kristin at Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama Communications Digital Content Coordinator Lauren Kristin shares their most recent venture to Rockaway! 2018. Rockaway! is an ongoing public…

June 28, 2018 | Swann

Swann Summer Reading List 2018

Our Summer Reading List is back for 2018! Here’s what some of us are cracking into in the off-season. Nicholas D. Lowry, President & Principal Auctioneer Noah Charney…

June 25, 2018 | Swann

2017-18 Year in Review

The 2017-18 auction season at Swann Galleries was replete with record prices and rediscovered paintings, offering works created as early as the fifteenth century and as recently as last year.…

June 4, 2018 | Swann

Pride Month: Some Artists I Love

This post is by Keavy Handley-Byrne of our Photographs & Photobooks department. To celebrate Pride Month, I wanted to share a couple of queer artists’ work in recognition of their…

December 28, 2017 | Swann

2017: Year in Review

In our diamond anniversary year, we offered a star-studded roster of 30 auctions, setting nearly 100 records and introducing countless items to the market, including a previously unknown photograph of Harriet…

July 13, 2017 | Swann

Swann Summer Reading List 2017

We spoke to specialists at Swann about their extracurricular activities. Unsurprisingly, their interests are generally aligned with their specialty! We asked them to talk about what they’re reading, and compiled…

June 16, 2017 | Swann

Records & Results: Spring 2017

The spring 2017 season at Swann Galleries marked the 75th anniversary of our first auction. On March 27, 1942, Benjamin Swann held an auction dedicated to rare and antiquarian books.…

December 19, 2016 | Swann

Records & Results: Fall 2016

Fall 2016 has been a successful season at Swann. In 13 sales, we set more than 50 auction records and offered 4,497 lots, including a rediscovered illustration by Dr. Seuss, a…

August 16, 2016 | Swann

2015-16: A Year of Records

Last year Swann Galleries saw 95 records and first appearances across 31 sales with some of our departments even breaking their own records. Treasures ranging from previously unknown works to…

August 19, 2014 | Swann

Warm Weather Specialists: What Our Experts Are Up to in Summer 2014

Our auction rooms may be dark until September, but that doesn’t mean our specialists aren’t busy these days. In addition to combing through consignments and cataloguing lots for our Fall…

May 21, 2009 | Swann

Swann President Nicholas D. Lowry on the Recession

Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President and Current President of the International Auctioneers consortium, recently shared his thoughts on the impact of the economic downturn on the auction business. The Cycle…

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