July 22, 2019Kelsie JankowskiVintage Posters Swann in Profile: Lauren Goldberg Read more about 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…
Read more about Records & Results: Graphic Design June 5, 2019 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Graphic Design Charles Loupot Reaches New Heights in Swann Graphic Design Auction debuts for Tadanori Yokoo Our auction of Graphic Design on May 23 offered a selection of vintage posters by…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Vintage Posters June 4, 2019 Vintage Posters Upcoming Highlights: Vintage Posters At Auction August 7 Complete Catalogue For over 15 years our summer Vintage Posters auction has brought wonderful examples of beach and summer resort posters to market. The tradition continues…
Read more about Dramatized Sales Methods: How to close a sale in 1930 May 14, 2019 Vintage Posters Dramatized Sales Methods: How to close a sale in 1930 The art of salesmanship has long been dissected in search of methods to effectively and efficiently hook customers and close a deal. Our upcoming Graphic Design auction on May 23…
Read more about Graphic Design March 1, 2019 Vintage Posters Graphic Design At Auction May 23 Complete Catalogue Graphic Design continues to be a favorite among our poster auctions, with work by important designers like A.M. Cassandre, Charles Loupot, Ludwig Hohlwein, Jean…
Read more about Records & Results: Vintage Posters February 13, 2019 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Vintage Posters Alphonse Mucha & Art Nouveau Lead Vintage Posters at Swann Our February 7 sale of Vintage Posters saw numerous firsts and records. Nicholas D. Lowry, Swann President, noted: “Lively bidding for ski posters and Art Nouveau images set…
Read more about The Posters on Your Shelf: Scarce Books & Portfolios January 31, 2019 Vintage Posters The Posters on Your Shelf: Scarce Books & Portfolios At the end of the nineteenth century, the craze of poster collecting was at an all-time high. As a result, publishers formed subscription services in limited runs so that the…
Read more about Upcoming Highlights: Vintage Posters January 9, 2019 Vintage Posters Upcoming Highlights: Vintage Posters At Auction February 7 Complete Catalogue Our winter sale features tantalizing, rare Art Nouveau images and a panoply of evocative Ski and Winter Resort advertisements. In addition to…
Read more about Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters October 29, 2018 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters Swann Travel Posters Auction Sets 8 Records Philip Zec reaches $17.5K Poster lovers from far and wide came to Swann on Thursday, October 25, sale of Rare & Important Travel Posters,…
Read more about Set Sail on the Open Seas with a Fleet of Ocean Liner Posters October 17, 2018 Vintage Posters Set Sail on the Open Seas with a Fleet of Ocean Liner Posters Featured in our October 25 Rare & Important Travel Posters sale are works promoting ocean liners from the golden age of travel. Cunard Line It was…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Rare & Important Travel Posters August 31, 2018 Vintage Posters A Look Inside the Catalogue: Rare & Important Travel Posters At Auction October 25 Complete Catalogue A breathtaking presentation of rare and unexpectedly beautiful images from around the world, this sale features numerous destinations and locales. Trains, planes, automobiles…
Read more about Records & Results: Vintage Posters August 7, 2018 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Vintage Posters Poster Passion Leads to a Successful Auction Our August 1 Vintage Poster sale set at least six auction records, including a new high price for Sutro Baths. The exhibition for…
Read more about Keep It Under Your Stetson July 30, 2018 Vintage Posters Keep It Under Your Stetson Wartime propaganda can serve a variety of purposes, from recruitment and morale-building to conservation. During World War II all of these played a role in the Office of War Information’s…
Read more about Thirsty? Wine & Liquor Posters May Satisfy July 27, 2018 Vintage Posters Thirsty? Wine & Liquor Posters May Satisfy We may be at the height of the craft beer renaissance, but the history of alcoholic beverages goes way back. Humans have proven, over millennia, that we like a good…
Read more about The Hot Bid Interviews Nicho on Cassandre’s “Best Way” July 10, 2018 Vintage Posters The Hot Bid Interviews Nicho on Cassandre’s “Best Way” Sheila Gibson Stoodley, author of The Hot Bid, interviewed our President & Principal Auctioneer Nicholas D. Lowry about the most expensive travel poster ever sold. Sheila’s blog, The Hot Bid showcases…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Vintage Posters May 11, 2018 Vintage Posters A Look Inside the Catalogue: Vintage Posters At Auction August 1 Complete Catalogue Wine & Liquor Advertisements Numerous posters by Leonetto Cappiello and Luciano Achille Mauzan, including rarely-seen works, capture the essence of their styles.…
Read more about Records & Results: Graphic Design May 9, 2018 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Graphic Design Our auction of Graphic Design on May 3 offered vintage posters that defined the styles of the twentieth century. In a highly-curated selection of just over 250 lots, the highlight…
Read more about How Car Posters Drove Graphic Design April 25, 2018 Vintage Posters How Car Posters Drove Graphic Design In the dawn of the motor car, most automobile purveyors relied on a “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality, touting ever-evolving technology and styles to drive car sales. A selection…
Read more about A Look Inside the Catalogue: Graphic Design March 30, 2018 Vintage Posters A Look Inside the Catalogue: Graphic Design At Auction May 3 Graphic Design This auction celebrates innovation in the field of graphic design, with a colorful offering of vintage posters, along with a coterie of fine…
Read more about #5WomenArtists – Lauren Goldberg’s List March 29, 2018 Vintage Posters #5WomenArtists – Lauren Goldberg’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: Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection March 9, 2018 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection Vintage Posters Featuring Highlights from the Gail Chisholm Collection offered premier examples of advertising and propaganda from around the world, and broke several auction records. Nicholas D. Lowry, President of…
Read more about Erik Nitsche’s Modernist Vision February 23, 2018 Vintage Posters Erik Nitsche’s Modernist Vision One of many highlights in our March 1 sale of Vintage Posters is a run of posters designed by Erik Nitsche in a series of campaigns for General Dynamics. Nitsche’s…
Read more about Gail Chisholm: A Life in Posters February 16, 2018 Vintage Posters Gail Chisholm: A Life in Posters Nearly a quarter of our March 1 auction of Vintage Posters was devoted to highlights from the collection of renowned poster dealer and aficionado Gail Chisholm. The sale opened with more…
Read more about Vintage Posters 101 January 23, 2018 Vintage Posters Vintage Posters 101 So you’ve fallen in love with a vintage poster. What next? Here are some of the most important things to consider when talking about, looking for, and decorating with vintage…
Read more about Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters October 30, 2017 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Rare & Important Travel Posters Our annual auctions of Rare & Important Travel Posters are destinations in and of themselves. On October 26, we offered more spectacular examples that embodied a century’s worth of technological development.…
Read more about Marvel at Early Aviation Posters from 1910 October 25, 2017 Vintage Posters Marvel at Early Aviation Posters from 1910 The development of manned flight from hot air balloon to heavier-than-air machines was recorded and disseminated to the public via promotional posters. Some of the most influential works from this…
Read more about Records & Results: Vintage Posters August 4, 2017 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Vintage Posters More than 600 colorful advertisements and announcements crossed the block at our sale of Vintage Posters on Wednesday, August 2. The encyclopedic selection represented a century’s worth of development in…
Read more about The Symbiotic Relationship Between Tattoos & Posters July 27, 2017 Vintage Posters The Symbiotic Relationship Between Tattoos & Posters An unusual lot in our upcoming auction of Vintage Posters features a colorful individual: Captain Costentenus, a Greek Albanian man tattooed from head to foot. Captain Costentenus was…
Read more about Isle Adam: Timeless & Inspiring July 19, 2017 Vintage Posters Isle Adam: Timeless & Inspiring Shrewd perusers of our sales may notice a familiar eave lurking in the catalogue for our upcoming auction of Vintage Posters: the iconic orange roof of the beach house at…
Read more about Abram Games’s Sultry Poster Causes a Stir July 17, 2017 Vintage Posters Abram Games’s Sultry Poster Causes a Stir Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters features the largest — and best — selection of war posters we have ever offered. As England prepared to enter World War Two,…
Read more about American War Posters, 100 Years Later July 10, 2017 Vintage Posters American War Posters, 100 Years Later Our August 2 auction of Vintage Posters will feature an exceptionally wide array of World War I imagery, honoring the centennial anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into the fray. More…
Read more about Records & Results: Graphic Design June 1, 2017 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Graphic Design Our May 25 auction of Graphic Design offered a cornucopia of inspired works spanning fin de siècle Art Nouveau masters to modernist posters. The top lot of the sale was Col…
Read more about Graphic Design in the Vienna Secession May 23, 2017 Vintage Posters Graphic Design in the Vienna Secession This post includes notes from the catalogue of our May 25 auction of Graphic Design, featuring an extensive selection of works out of the Wiener Werkstätte, the design school for the…
Read more about Psychedelic Concert Posters May 12, 2017 Vintage Posters Psychedelic Concert Posters This post was written by Sarah Shelburne of the Vintage Posters department using examples from the May 25 auction of Graphic Design. Few art forms have been as…
Read more about Alphonse Mucha: Behind the Magic January 12, 2017 Vintage Posters Alphonse Mucha: Behind the Magic Even those unfamiliar with Alphonse Mucha’s name will recognize the tendrils of hair and profusion of delicate flowers surrounding his seraphic models. But what of the man himself? How did these ethereal…
Read more about Rare Vintage Posters for the Titanic November 13, 2015 Vintage Posters Rare Vintage Posters for the Titanic A subject of fascination since its dramatic demise during its maiden voyage, the legacy of White Star Line’s Titanic has continued to ripple throughout the auction world for years. While…
Read more about Nicholas Lowry on Travel Posters from the Julius Paul Collection December 2, 2014 Vintage Posters Nicholas Lowry on Travel Posters from the Julius Paul Collection Swann President and Posters specialist Nicholas D. Lowry writes beautifully about the December 17 auction of Travel Posters from the Julius Paul Collection. Read on for his notes on the sale.…
Read more about WWI&II, Grand Prix and Tennis Images Led Swann’s Top August Posters Auction of All Time August 8, 2014 Vintage Posters WWI&II, Grand Prix and Tennis Images Led Swann’s Top August Posters Auction of All Time Coming on the heels of tremendous media coverage (see: The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Luxury Travel Magazine, Robb Report and Slate), Swann’s August 6 auction of Vintage Posters grossed more…
Read more about “The Great War” in Posters July 18, 2014 Vintage Posters “The Great War” in Posters Summer 2014 marks 100 years since the start of World War I, also known as The Great War. Sparked by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on June 28,…
Read more about Keep Calm and Poster On July 11, 2014 Vintage Posters Keep Calm and Poster On The image is so iconic, it’s been co-opted countless times, but in Swann Galleries’ upcoming Vintage Posters auction we have the original: a 1939 Keep Calm and Carry On poster. When…
Read more about Where He Crosses Over: Edward Gorey Posters & Postcards May 5, 2014 Vintage Posters Where He Crosses Over: Edward Gorey Posters & Postcards “I didn’t know GOREY did that poster!” That was the excited reaction of a Swann employee as she spotted the six-foot-high poster of a ballerina’s feet in five positions that…
Read more about Records & Results: Vintage Posters April 29, 2014 Vintage Posters Records & Results: Vintage Posters The three top lots in Swann Galleries’ April 24, 2014 auction each set new auction records in a sale marked by incredible results for esoteric images. Lot 1 was Bertold Löffler’s Kunstschau…
Read more about One of a Kind: Josef Hoffmann’s Wiener Werkstätte Poster December 3, 2013 Vintage Posters One of a Kind: Josef Hoffmann’s Wiener Werkstätte Poster A unique item among the scarce posters in the recently restituted Julius Paul Collection that Swann is auctioning on December 18, 2013 is Josef Hoffmann’s hand-stenciled poster announcing the opening of the…
Read more about Typography Masterpieces May 7, 2012 Vintage Posters Typography Masterpieces A recent auction of Modernist Posters features several examples of modernist typography from major innovators of the form, including Max Bill, Walter Dexel and Jan Tschichold, all associates of the…
November 10, 2011 Vintage Posters Three Chicago Travel Posters You’ll Love Two images from 1924 for Chicago Rapid Transit were intended to draw visitors to the city’s attractions: Ervine Metzl’s evening view of buildings obscured by trees, which is reminiscent of…